Tomography of Interacting Binary Systems: Algols to Gamma-Ray Binaries
Abstract
Three-dimensional Doppler tomography of interacting binaries has now provided some interesting perspectives of the gas flows beyond the central plane corresponding to the orbital plane. These images suggest that the magnetic field of the mass losing star influences the gas flows in some cases. Earlier 2D tomograms displayed evidence of gas flows associated with the gas stream, accretion disks, accretion annuli, and hot spots as well as evidence of magnetic flows associated with the mass loser. These indirect images have revealed the active environments that exist in the slow-mass-transfer Algols, cataclysmic variables, polars, x-ray binaries, and gamma ray binaries.
- Publication:
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From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Essential Modeling Tools
- Pub Date:
- April 2012
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2012IAUS..282..167R
- Keywords:
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- accretion;
- accretion disks;
- (stars:) binaries (including multiple): close;
- (stars:) binaries: eclipsing;
- (stars:) binaries: general;
- (stars:) circumstellar matter;
- stars: imaging;
- techniques: image processing;
- X-rays: binaries;
- gamma rays: observations;
- stars: individual (β Per;
- U CrB;
- RS Vul;
- V711 Tau;
- TT Hya;
- AU Mon;
- Cyg X-1;
- o Ceti)