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The first Doppler images of the eclipsing binary SZ Piscium

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11/02/2016
Author
Xiang, Yue
Gu, Shenghong
Cameron, Andrew Collier
Barnes, John Robert
Zhang, Liyun
Keywords
Stars: activity
Binaries: eclipsing
Stars: imaging
Stars: individual: SZ Psc
Starspots
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
NDAS
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Abstract
We present the first Doppler images of the active eclipsing binary system SZ Psc, based on the high-resolution spectral data sets obtained in 2004 November and 2006 September-December. The least-squares deconvolution technique was applied to derive high signal-to-noise profiles from the observed spectra of SZ Psc. Absorption features contributed by a third component of the system were detected in the LSD profiles at all observed phases. We estimated the mass and period of the third component to be about 0.9 M⊙ and 1283 ± 10 d, respectively. After removing the contribution of the third body from the least-squares deconvolved profiles, we derived the surface maps of SZ Psc. The resulting Doppler images indicate significant star-spot activities on the surface of the K subgiant component. The distributions of star-spots are more complex than that revealed by previous photometric studies. The cooler K component exhibited pronounced high-latitude spots as well as numerous low- and intermediate-latitude spot groups during the entire observing seasons, but did not show any large, stable polar cap, different from many other active RS CVn-type binaries.
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Xiang , Y , Gu , S , Cameron , A C , Barnes , J R & Zhang , L 2016 , ' The first Doppler images of the eclipsing binary SZ Piscium ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 456 , no. 1 , pp. 314-322 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2642
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2642
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
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© 2015 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This 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://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2642
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http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/456/1/314/suppl/DC1
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.456..314X
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8135

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