High signal-to-noise ratio — The spectroscopic key to Algol systems |
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Authors: | Jocelyn Tomkin |
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Institution: | 1. Astronomy Department, University of Texas, 78712, Austin, Texas, USA
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Abstract: | The usefulness of high signal-to-noise-ratio spectra for both radial-velocity and abundance studies of Algol systems is emphasised. It is shown that division by a hot star is a worthwhile step in pursuit of this objective. A preliminary analysis of high signalto-noise-ratio, red and near-infrared, Reticon observations of R CMa shows that its primary has solar CNO abundances within the 0.3 dex observational error. The low-mass (0.17 m⊙) secondary of this Algol system must have lost a large fraction of its original mass. Some of this material would have been extensively processed during the secondary's main-sequence lifetime and would therefore have had a highly non-solar CNO-abundance distribution. The lack of serious contamination of the primary's abundances is consistent with most, but not all, plausible mass-transfer scenarios. |
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