We report results of the spectroscopy for V725 Tau (HDE 245770, BD +26 degrees 883), commonly known as Flavia's star, which is the optical counterpart of the X-ray pulsar A0535+26, carried out at the 1.5 m Loiano telescope during one run of observations of this star spread over a period of years. The HeI emission lines clearly show doubling, which is good evidence for the presence of a disc. In this paper we critically discuss the possibility that this disc is a temporary accretion disc around the neutron star, a view that contrasts to the usual interpretation, which considers that this sort of doubling in the HeI emission lines is due to a disc formed by gas expelled from the Be star. In the former case the outer radius of the accretion disc could range from 5.9 x 10(10) cm to 2.1 x 10(11) cm, taking the most probable range into account for the orbital inclination of the binary system, from 35 degrees to 39 degrees. The presence of such a temporary accretion disc around the neutron star was predicted by Giovannelli & Ziolkowski (1990).

Hel doubled emission lines from A0535+26 equivalent to HDE 245770 - A possible interpretation / F., Giovannelli; S., Bernabei; Rossi, Corinne; L., Sabau Graziati. - In: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. - ISSN 0004-6361. - STAMPA. - 475:(2007), pp. 651-657. [10.1051/0004-6361:20066149]

Hel doubled emission lines from A0535+26 equivalent to HDE 245770 - A possible interpretation

ROSSI, Corinne;
2007

Abstract

We report results of the spectroscopy for V725 Tau (HDE 245770, BD +26 degrees 883), commonly known as Flavia's star, which is the optical counterpart of the X-ray pulsar A0535+26, carried out at the 1.5 m Loiano telescope during one run of observations of this star spread over a period of years. The HeI emission lines clearly show doubling, which is good evidence for the presence of a disc. In this paper we critically discuss the possibility that this disc is a temporary accretion disc around the neutron star, a view that contrasts to the usual interpretation, which considers that this sort of doubling in the HeI emission lines is due to a disc formed by gas expelled from the Be star. In the former case the outer radius of the accretion disc could range from 5.9 x 10(10) cm to 2.1 x 10(11) cm, taking the most probable range into account for the orbital inclination of the binary system, from 35 degrees to 39 degrees. The presence of such a temporary accretion disc around the neutron star was predicted by Giovannelli & Ziolkowski (1990).
2007
accretion; accretion disks; be; stars : binaries : close; stars : emission line; x-rays : binaries
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Hel doubled emission lines from A0535+26 equivalent to HDE 245770 - A possible interpretation / F., Giovannelli; S., Bernabei; Rossi, Corinne; L., Sabau Graziati. - In: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. - ISSN 0004-6361. - STAMPA. - 475:(2007), pp. 651-657. [10.1051/0004-6361:20066149]
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