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High-resolution spectroscopy of Boyajian's star during optical dimming events

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Date
06/2019
Author
Martínez González, M. J.
González-Fernández, C.
Asensio Ramos, A.
Socas-Navarro, H.
Plaza, C. Westendorp
Boyajian, T. S.
Wright, J. T.
Cameron, A. Collier
González Hernández, J. I.
Holgado, G.
Kennedy, G. M.
Masseron, T.
Molinari, E.
Saario, J.
Simón-Díaz, S.
Toledo-Padrón, B.
Keywords
Stars: activity
Stars: circumstellar matter
Stars: findamental parameters
Methods: observational
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
DAS
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Abstract
Boyajian’s star is an apparently normal main-sequence F-type star with a very unusual light curve. The dipping activity of the star, discovered during the Kepler mission, presents deep, asymmetric, and aperiodic events. Here we present high-resolution spectroscopic follow-up during some dimming events recorded post-Kepler observations, from ground-based telescopes. We analyse data from the HERMES, HARPS-N, and FIES spectrographs to characterize the stellar atmosphere and to put some constraints on the hypotheses that have appeared in the literature concerning the occulting elements. The star’s magnetism, if existing, is not extreme. The spots on the surface, if present, would occupy 0.02 per cent of the area, at most. The chromosphere, irrespective of the epoch of observation, is hotter than the values expected from radiative equilibrium, meaning that the star has some degree of activity. We find no clear evidence of the interstellar medium or exocoments being responsible for the dimmings of the light curve. However, we detect at 1–2σ level, a decrease of the radial velocity of the star during the first dip recorded after the Kepler observations. We claim the presence of an optically thick object with likely inclined and high impact parameter orbits that produces the observed Rossiter–McLaughlin effect.
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Martínez González , M J , González-Fernández , C , Asensio Ramos , A , Socas-Navarro , H , Plaza , C W , Boyajian , T S , Wright , J T , Cameron , A C , González Hernández , J I , Holgado , G , Kennedy , G M , Masseron , T , Molinari , E , Saario , J , Simón-Díaz , S & Toledo-Padrón , B 2019 , ' High-resolution spectroscopy of Boyajian's star during optical dimming events ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 486 , no. 1 , pp. 236-244 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz850
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz850
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This article is published and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model) his work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz850
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Financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through projects AYA2014-60833-P, AYA2014-60476-P, and AYA2017-86389-P are gratefully acknowledged. MJMG and JIGH also acknowledge financial support through the Ramón y Cajal fellowship. GMK is supported by the Royal Society as a Royal Society University Research Support Fellow.
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URL
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.tmp..828M
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17543

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