Wp. Mckibben et al., A LONG-PERIOD SPECTROSCOPIC BINARY IN THE O-STAR MULTIPLE SYSTEM HD193322, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 110(750), 1998, pp. 900-905
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
We present radial velocity measurements and a single-lined spectroscop
ic orbit for the bright O-type star, HD 193322A, which we shaw to be a
311 day binary system that has a distant third companion (detected by
speckle interferometry) in a 31 yr orbit. We suggest that the speckle
companion appears in the spectrum as a broad-lined component of early
B type. We also present a spectrum of the visual companion, HD 193322
B, which appears to be an unresolved, double-lined spectroscopic binar
y. Thus, HD 193322, the central object in the open cluster Collinder 4
19, is a multiple system that contains at least five stars (possibly s
even if the C and D components are physical). Such systems may play a
key role in the dynamical ejection of runaway stars from young cluster
s.