Spectropolarimetric orbits of symbiotic stars: SY Muscae.
Abstract
We present a formalism describing the change in position angle with orbital motion of Raman-scattered lines in symbiotic binaries. Straightforward inversion techniques allow this formalism to be used in the determination of `polarimetric orbits'. The orbital quantities which can be estimated from suitable data are the period P; the eccentricity, e; the inclination, i; the longitude of periastron, ω; and the position angle of the line of nodes, {OMEGA}. We illustrate the method with an analysis of data for SY Mus.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- June 1996
- Bibcode:
- 1996A&A...310..235H
- Keywords:
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- STARS: BINARY: SYMBIOTIC;
- STARS: INDIVIDUAL: SY MUS;
- POLARIZATION