The binary system AM Herculis and the parameters of its components.
Abstract
The parameters of the system Polar AM Herculis, the prototype star of a subgroup of cataclysmic variable binaries containing a white dwarf as primary and a low-mass main sequence star as a secondary, are reexamined. Values are given for the distance, total mass, mass function, component mass ratio, inclination angle, semimajor axis, semiminor axis of the binary system and the T(eff), M(bol), mass radius, and inclination of magnetic dipole of the components.
- Publication:
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Astronomische Nachrichten
- Pub Date:
- February 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1002/asna.2113120207
- Bibcode:
- 1991AN....312..103G
- Keywords:
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- Binary Stars;
- Cataclysmic Variables;
- Main Sequence Stars;
- Stellar Mass;
- Stellar Spectra;
- White Dwarf Stars;
- Interstellar Gas;
- Stellar Magnetic Fields;
- Stellar Mass Accretion;
- Astrophysics