Parameters of the peculiar binary RY Sct as inferred from an analysis of new multicolor photometry

Citation
Ea. Antokhina et Mi. Kumsiashvili, Parameters of the peculiar binary RY Sct as inferred from an analysis of new multicolor photometry, ASTRON LETT, 25(10), 1999, pp. 662-668
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
ASTRONOMY LETTERS-A JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE ASTROPHYSICS
ISSN journal
10637737 → ACNP
Volume
25
Issue
10
Year of publication
1999
Pages
662 - 668
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-7737(199910)25:10<662:POTPBR>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
New intermediate-band Stroemgren and narrow-band H beta photometry (a total of six filters) of the unique binary RY Set is reported. The results are i nterpreted using the light-curve synthesis method based on the model of the binary that we suggested in our earlier paper. The binary is assumed to co nsist of a BO-type star that fills its Roche lobe and transfers mass to a h otter secondary surrounded by a geometrically thick and opaque spheroidal a ccretion disk. Based on the spectroscopically determined component mass rat io, q = M-2/M-1 = 3.3, the following binary parameters are inferred: orbita l inclination i = 85 degrees +/- 2 degrees; the equatorial radius of the ac cretion disk, a similar to 0.6R(orb) (the disk is strongly flattened with t he axial ratio of b/a = 0.2); the equatorial (similar to 19000 K) and the p olar (similar to 43000 K) temperatures of the accretion disk. Our results a gree well with those of Antokhina and Cherepashchuk (1988) and corroborate the conclusion that RY Set is now at the stage of the transition into a WR + OB system.