Articulo
A peculiar interacting Be star binary in the Small Magellanic Cloud
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issn:0004-6280
issn:1538-3873
Autor
Mennickent, Ronald E.
Rivinius, Thomas
Cidale, Lydia Sonia
Soszyński, Igor
Fernández Trincado, José G
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Resumen
We find that the emission-line object OGLEJ005039.05-725751.4, a member of the cluster OGLE-CL SMC 64, exhibits a peculiar light curve pattern repeating with a recurrence time of 141.45 days. The light curve resembles periodic outbursts with a duty cycle of 20%. A second long cycle of 2500 days is also detected in the photometric data set. Two X-SHOOTER spectra obtained at minimum and maximum reveal a Be star dominating at minimum light resembling the Classical Be star 48 Lib. The larger Hα emission, the stronger Na D absorption and the appearance of emission in the infrared Ca II triplet at maximum, might indicate periodic mass transfer in a complex binary system. Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata