Double dataset eclipse mapping of IP peg

Citation
A. Bobinger et al., Double dataset eclipse mapping of IP peg, ASTRON ASTR, 348(1), 1999, pp. 145-153
Citations number
25
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
ISSN journal
00046361 → ACNP
Volume
348
Issue
1
Year of publication
1999
Pages
145 - 153
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-6361(199908)348:1<145:DDEMOI>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
The classical eclipse mapping method, developed by Horne (1985), allows to get a deeper insight into the spatial structure of accretion disks. Reconst ructing a two-dimensional intensity distribution from an one-dimensional da taset of the light curve, the method is not artifact-free and the result de pends on the used default image. Using simultaneously recorded trailed spec tra and photometry as a double dataset, we are able to reconstruct accretio n disks nearly without artifacts. It is possible to resolve structures in t he accretion disk with very high clarity and reliability. The double datase t eclipse mapping is applied to the dataset of the cataclysmic variable IP Peg. The reconstructions show an asymmetric disk with a second spot, opposi te to the hot-spot of the impact region of the gas-stream in the Doppler-ma ps which can be now unequivocally assigned in the eclipse-maps to emission in the acjacence of the hot-spot, to the central part of the accretion disk and a region opposite to the hot-spat at the outer part of the disk. The p ossible origin and nature of these features are discussed.