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UV Properties of Symbiotic Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

M. Kafatos
M. Kafatos*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, U.S.A.

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Symbiotic stars are suspected to be binary systems of large dimensions in which one star is a cool primary giant (regular M-giant or Mira-type variable) and the secondary a hot subdwarf (Boyarchuk 1982) or even a main-sequence star with an accretion disk around it (Bath and Pringle 1982). Observations of symbiotic stars in the far ultraviolet with the “International Ultraviolet Explorer” (IUE) enable us to determine the properties of the system in the binary picture. A number of critical observations are needed to do this including an estimate of the photoionizing radiation and the temperature of the photoionizing source.

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Joint Commission Meetings
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 6: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XVIIIth General Assembly of the IAU, 1982 , 1983 , pp. 641 - 642
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983

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