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Title:
Three-Dimensional Doppler Images of the Disklike and Streamlike States of U Coronae Borealis
Authors:
Agafonov, Michail I.; Sharova, Olga I.; Richards, Mercedes T.
Affiliation:
AA(Radiophysical Research Institute (NIRFI) 25, B. Pecherskaya St., Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia ), AB(Radiophysical Research Institute (NIRFI) 25, B. Pecherskaya St., Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia ), AC(Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA )
Publication:
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 690, Issue 2, pp. 1730-1744 (2009). (ApJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
01/2009
Origin:
IOP
ApJ Keywords:
accretion, accretion disks, binaries (including multiple): close, binaries: eclipsing, circumstellar matter, stars: imaging, stars: individual: U Coronae Borealis, techniques: image processing
DOI:
10.1088/0004-637X/690/2/1730
Bibliographic Code:
2009ApJ...690.1730A

Abstract

The three-dimensional (3D) Radioastronomical Approach to Doppler tomography has been used to study the Hα emission sources in U Coronae Borealis. These 3D tomograms provide greater resolution than the projected two-dimensional version and highlight the jetlike gas flows in the V z direction transverse to the orbital plane. In this paper, the 3D tomograms are compared at two distinct epochs when U CrB was in the disklike state (1993 data) and the streamlike state (1994 data). Both states display a prominent emission source, the circumprimary bulge, which is produced when the gas stream strikes the photosphere of the mass gainer. This source is detected within Vz = ±150 km s-1, and demonstrates that the bulge is not confined to the orbital plane although it achieves a maximum strength near Vz = 0 km s-1. Other emission sources include the stream-star and stream-disk shocks and a Localized Region (LR) where the circling disk material strikes the incoming gas stream. The LR has V z velocities of 200-500 km s-1 in the disklike state. The disk emission is seen over a range of V z velocities, and there is evidence that the disk is inclined to the orbital plane or may have two arms. The gas stream flows along its predicted trajectory in the streamlike state, and a comparison with the disklike state suggests that the gas stream has a higher density than the disk in both states of this binary.
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