OGLE-LMC-ECL-11893: The discovery of a long-period eclipsing binary with a circumstellar disk

Journal Article · Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/788/1/41· OSTI ID:22356683

Dong, Subo ^[1]; Katz, Boaz ^[2]; Prieto, Jose L. ^[3]; Udalski, Andrzej; Kozlowski, Szymon ^[4]; Street, R. A.; Tsapras, Y. ^[5]; Bramich, D. M. ^[6]; Hundertmark, M.; Horne, K.; Dominik, M.; Jaimes, R. Figuera ^[7]; Snodgrass, C. ^[8]

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1. Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Yi He Yuan Road 5, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100871 (China)
2. Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08544 (United States)
3. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 4 Ivy Lane, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544 (United States)
4. Warsaw University Observatory, Al. Ujazdowskie 4, 00-478 Warszawa (Poland)
5. Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, 6740 Cortona Drive, suite 102, Goleta, CA 93117 (United States)
6. Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar Foundation, Tornado Tower, Floor 19, P.O. Box 5825, Doha (Qatar)
7. SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews KY16 9SS (United Kingdom)
8. Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, D-37077 Göttingen (Germany)

We report the serendipitous discovery of a disk-eclipse system OGLE-LMC-ECL-11893. The eclipse occurs with a period of 468 days, a duration of about 15 days, and a deep (up to Δm{sub I} ≈ 1.5), peculiar, and asymmetric profile. A possible origin of such an eclipse profile involves a circumstellar disk. The presence of the disk is confirmed by the H-α line profile from the follow-up spectroscopic observations, and the star is identified as Be/Ae type. Unlike the previously known disk-eclipse candidates, the eclipses of OGLE-LMC-ECL-11893 retain the same shape throughout the span of ∼17 yr (13 orbital periods), indicating no measurable orbital precession of the disk.

• OSTI ID: 22356683
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 788, Issue 1; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0004-637X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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