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A disk of gas would explain mysterious light changes observed in Sagittarius constellation by Staff Writers Concepcion, Chile (SPX) Sep 03, 2020
The enigmatic variations of light in a binary system, located in Sagittarius constellation, could be explained by the presence of a variable gas disk around a hot star that revolves around a cooler star. These are the conclusions published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics and which brought by researchers from Chile, Serbia and Poland. It is the binary system OGLE-BLG-ECL-157529, located at 10.567 light years from Earth, which had been reported in a catalog of binary stars in the direction of the Galactic center. The system showed a peculiar variation of its brightness, with a period close to 800 days, together with typical changes of an eclipsing binary star of 24.8 days. The data analyzed cover 18.5 years and were obtained at the Las Campanas observatory in Chile, as part of the Polish OGLE project. The object was identified as a binary star, whose cooler and evolved star transfers mass to the hottest star, forming around it a disk of gas of about 30 solar radii of extension. The disk would have a temperature of about 3.000 Kelvin, and it would undergo changes in its size and temperature as a result of variations in the amount of material it receives from the cold star. The team of researchers was integrated by Ronald Mennickent, Juan Garces and Dominik Schleicher, from the Department of Astronomy of University of Concepcion; Gojko Djurasevic, from the Astronomical Observatory Volgina, Patryk Iwanek, Radoslaw Poleski and Igor Soszy?ski, from the University of Warsaw. "The team of co-author have been in close collaboration since decades, and includes a PhD student of mine (Garces) and colleagues who I have met at conferences and Dr. Schleicher who is from my institution", said Mennickent. The article shows how changes in disc properties convincingly explain the changes in the brightness of the binary system. In particular, this system shows strange variations in the depth of its eclipses which can be explained by the evolution of this gaseous disk, according to the authors. "Many stars in the Universe are binary, and the most massive ones go through these mass transfer processes, which dramatically conditions their evolution. These objects can produce in the distant future, supernovae or even emitters of gravitational radiation", Dr. Mennickent explains.
A direct view of star disk interactions Cologne, Germany (SPX) Sep 01, 2020 A team including researchers from the Institute for Astrophysics of the University of Cologne has for the first time directly observed the columns of matter that build up newborn stars. This was observed in the young star TW Hydrae system located approximately 163 light years from Earth. This result was obtained with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) and its GRAVITY instrument of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile. The article 'A measure of the size of the magnetospheric ... read more
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