Outburst activity of the symbiotic system AG Dra
Abstract
AG Dra is a well-known bright symbiotic binary with a white dwarf and a pulsating red giant. Long-term photometry monitoring and a new behaviour of the system are presented. A detailed period analysis of photometry as well as spectroscopy was carried out. In the system of AG Dra, two periods of variability are detected. The longer one around 550 d is related to the orbital motion and the shorter one around 355 d was interpreted as pulsations of the red giant in our previous article. In addition, the active stages change distinctively, but the outbursts are repeated with periods from 359-375 d.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- September 2014
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1406.5505
- Bibcode:
- 2014MNRAS.443.1103H
- Keywords:
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- binaries: symbiotic;
- stars: individual: AG Dra;
- stars: oscillations;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 8 figures. 5 tables