Outburst activity of the symbiotic binary AG Dra
Abstract
AG Dra regularly undergoes quiescent and active stages which consist of a series of individual outbursts repeating at about a one-year interval. After seven years of flat quiescence following the 2006-08 major outbursts, in the late spring of 2015, AG Dra begun rising again in brightness toward what appeared to be a new minor outburst. The recent outburst activity of AG Dra was definitely confirmed by a more prominent outburst in April 2016. The photometric and spectroscopic observations suggest that these outbursts are of the hot type. Such behaviour is quite unusual, because the major outbursts in the beginning of active stages are usually cool. Can we expect the major cool or minor hot outburst during the spring of 2017? AG Dra demonstrates the importance of long-term monitoring of symbiotic stars in order to disentangle the nature and mechanisms of their active stages and outbursts.
- Publication:
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Open European Journal on Variable Stars
- Pub Date:
- April 2017
- Bibcode:
- 2017OEJV..180...24G