Friday, November 4, 2011

1111.0715 (Jingzhi Yan et al.)

Discrete Mass Ejections from the Be/X-ray Binary A0535+26/HD245770    [PDF]

Jingzhi Yan, Hui Li, Qingzhong Liu
We present the long-term optical spectroscopic observations on the Be/X-ray binary A0535+26 from 1992 to 2010. Combining with the public V-band photometric data, we find that each giant X-ray outburst occurred in a fading phase of the optical brightness. The anti-correlation between the optical brightness and the H$\alpha$ intensity during our 2009 observations indicates a mass ejection event had taken place before the 2009 giant X-ray outburst, which might cause the formation of a low-density region in the inner part of the disk. The similar anti-correlation observed around 1996 September indicates the occurrence of the mass ejection, which might trigger the subsequent disk loss event in A0535+26.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0715

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