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1 Binary Stars as Critical Tools & Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics, IAU Symposium No. 240, XXVIth GA IAU, August 1425, 2006, Prague 1 The eclipsing model of the symbiotic binary L. Hric 1, R. Gális 2 & L. Šmelcer 3 1 Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Tatranská Lomnica, The Slovak Republic ( hric@ta3.sk) 2 Faculty of Sciences, University of P.J. Šafárik, Moyzesova 16, Košice, The Slovak Republic ( galis@upjs.sk) 3 Public Observatory, Valašské Meziříčí, The Czech Republic ( lsmelcer@astrovm.cz) Abstract. The extensive longterm CCD and photoelectric photometric observations of the classical symbiotic star covering the period of its postoutburst activity (JD ) are presented. We explain the periodic variations of the brightness of by the eclipses of the components in the symbiotic system. The model with a deformed (nonhomogeneous) envelope, surrounding the white dwarf is discussed. In addition, we observed a flare in about JD , during the primary minimum, that was later followed by an energetic outburst in JD The next outburst activity is well detected on the light curve. 1. Introduction belongs to the classical symbiotic binaries with novalike outbursts. It was discovered to be a variable by Wolf (1919). Herbig (1950) described the spectrum in detail and identified it as symbiotic. In his observations, the star exhibited a strong emission spectrum superimposed on the latetype absorption one with strong TiO bands corresponding to a type of about M2. The emission lines were due to the hydrogen lines Hβ, Hγ, Hδ and He II as well as [O III]. Michalitsianos et al. (1982) published the IUE ultraviolet observations of and recognised that the system showed very strong highexcitation emission lines, which is in contradiction with the result obtained by Allen (1979) from the optical observations. It is possible to explain this conflict in terms of changes in the thermal excitation over some time scales. Synthetic spectra for many symbiotic stars were computed by Kenyon & Webbink (1984). They used three source models: latetype giant, hot companion and a surrounding nebula that is photoionised by the hot component. Their analysis gave the satisfactory fit for the main sequence (MS) star as an accretor with dm/dt M yr 1. They deduced the reddening for this model to be E BV = 0.13 ± 0.04 mag. Huang (1984) reported an optical spectroscopic observation with a rather low dispersion of 3.9 nm mm 1 and found the spectral type G8Iab for the cool component. It is worthy noting that the observations were obtained during the primary minimum. The hot components of 21 symbiotic stars were investigated by means of continua and He II lines of the IUE spectra by Mürset et al. (1991). For the hot component of they obtained a temperature of K and a luminosity of 1100 L. Munari et al. (1997a) investigated the spectroscopic and photometric behaviour of during the quiescence as well as during the outburst in They determined the physical and geometrical parameters as follows: for the cool giant filling its Roche lobe T c = 3500 K, L c 3600 L, ΣM = 2 M, q=m c /M h =2; for the hot component L h,min = 2000 L, L h,max = L and the temperature of the white dwarf decrease from K to K during outburst. is a little bit fainter than most of the monitored symbiotic stars, this is the reason that the historical light curve has been covered insufficiently and inhomogeneously so far. The photometric history was described by Munari et al. (1997b). 4 large outbursts ( , , , ) and 6 small eruptions in 1890, 1903, 1942, 1954, 1965 and 1974 were observed.
2 2 The last large outburst that appeared in 1993 was studied in detail by Tatarnikova et al. (2000). They suggested from the duration of the eclipse in 1997 that the cool component of fills its Roche lobe. The bulk of the envelope's volume emission measure is concentrated around the hot component in a region with rather sharp boundaries (r < R c ) and the line of sight is close to the binary s orbital plane. Munari et al. (1997a) and Munari et al. (1997b) analysed all the available photometric and spectroscopic data and concluded that eclipses should be excluded as the cause of the light variability. Hric et al. (2001a) published the longterm CCD photometric monitoring of the system. They discovered that except the primary minima, secondary minima were also present in the light curves, and they proposed to explain the photometric behaviour of the system in terms of eclipses. The presence of the secondary minimum was, however, indicated only by three photometric observations from one observatory. This uncertainty stimulated us to activate an international photometric campaign for a detailed coverage of the light curve. Tatarnikova et al. (2001) explained the observation of the minimum by the model with the cool component filling much of its Roche lobe and having a hot spot on the hemisphere facing the hot component. Mikolajewska et al. (2002) explained the light variability of by a combination of the ellipsoidal changes and sinusoidal variations of the nebular continuum and line emission. Recently, Waagen (2003) reported the first outburst of since May Hric et al. (2006) summarised the results from two photometric international campaigns and proposed the eclipsing model of the binary. 2. Observations The photometric observational material used in this work was taken from two basic sources. On the basis of the previous knowledge about the studied object, we included the star into the longterm photometric monitoring that was realised at the Beluša Observatory, Slovakia (Be) (The Newton telescope 180/700 mm, homemade CCD (TC211 chip) + BVRI (KronCousins)) from The observations taken here in the period OF JD lead to the discovery of the secondary minimum in and were published by Hric et al. (2001a). The second source of the observations comes from the two international campaigns we coordinated in (Hric et al. 2001b). These campaigns were oriented to confirm the presence of the secondary minimum as well as to the detailed covering of both minima. The following observatories and equipments, except (Be), were integrated to this campaign: University of Athens, Greece (At) (0.4m reflector f/8, CCD SBIG ST8, BVRI (Bessell)), The Kryonerion Observatory, Greece (Kr) (1.2m Cassegrain, PPM, UBV (Johnson)), The Valašské Meziříčí Observatory, The Czech Republic (VM) (SchmidtCassegrain 280/1765 mm, CCD ST7, VR (KronCousins)), The Vyškov Observatory, The Czech Republic (Vy) (RL 300/1200 mm, CCD ST7, BVRI (Bessell)), N. Copernicus Observatory, Brno, The Czech Republic, (Br) (Nasmyth 400/1200 mm, CCD ST7, BVRI (KronCousins)), Astronomical Institute, Ondřejov, The Czech Republic (On) (Maksutov 180/1000 mm, CCD SBIG ST6, VRI (KronCousins)), Stará Lesná Observatory of the Astronomical Institute, The Slovak Republic, (SL) Cassegrain 600/7500 mm, PPM, UBVR (Johnson)).
3 3 In this campaign a total of 217, 463, 323 and 290 observational data in the B, V, R and I filter, respectively, were obtained covering the interval of JD We have finished the campaign to the end of the season The campaign fulfilled its aim very well and actually exceeded our expectations, since not only the whole orbital cycle was covered but two flares were also detected in primary minimum that were followed by outburst (JD ) maximum which was observed also photoelectrically. This unexpected activity deformed the shape of the primary minimum and made difficult the detailed analysis of the light curves. On the other side this is the unique possibility to study the energetic balances and the relations of the events before and during the outburst. The daily averages from the obtained data for the individual observatories were calculated. The values of Julian dates were computed as the average values from the individual observations in various filters. Our new data (described above) were supplemented by the older data secured in the framework of the international campaign of longterm monitoring of symbiotic stars (Hric & Skopal 1989) at the Kryonerion, Skalnaté Pleso and Wroclaw observatories. Moreover, the UBV photoelectric photometry published by Munari et al. (1997a, b), Tatarnikova et al. (2000) and Mikolajewska (2002) as well as IR photoelectric photometry by Munari et al. (1997b) were adopted. 3. Data reduction During the preparation of the campaign, we attempted to choose such equipment and detectors that would enable us to obtain a homogeneous set of observations. Although mainly the CCD equipment was preferred because of a better connection to the international system, the equipments using the photoelectric photometry were also included (Kr, SL). Despite a careful approach, we were not successful in obtaining the complete homogeneous sets of the observations and it was necessary to correct the individual observations from different observatories. To obtain the applicable homogeneous sets, the observations from the individual observatories were analysed in detail in order to find the zero levels. In addition, concerning the fact that we wanted to study also the historical light curves, the transformations towards the previous published data used were found (see. thereinbefore). The final shifts for the individual observatories and the individual filters are listed in Table 1. The typical error of the individual shifts is in the range of ( ) mag. These homogenised data are shown in Fig.1. The contributions from the individual observatories are distinguished by means of the special colours. The historical light curve in the V band depicted in Fig. 2 is constructed from our data (filled circles) as well as the data from the literature (triangles). One main outburst, which occurred in May 1993 and three outbursts since February 2003, are clearly visible in this figure. Table 1. Conversion table of zeropoints of particular observatories Observatory Shifts in Filter B V R I Athens (At) Beluša (Be) Brno (Br) Kryonerion (Kr) Ondřejov (On) St. Lesná (SL) Val. Meziříčí (VM) Vyškov (Vy)
4 I Magnitude R V B Observatory Athens Vyškov Brno Ondřejov Beluša Valašské Meziříčí Kryonerion, Stará Lesná JD Fig. 1. BVRI photometry of secured during international campaign from 2001 to The light curve of obtained only at one observatory (Be) was published by Hric et. al (2001a) in their Fig. 1. Detected on the light curve are the nonlinear decline of the brightness from the previous outburst, two primary minima and the depth of the brightness between two primary minima. The discovered depth was interpreted by us for the first time as the secondary minimum. The data obtained during our international campaign (see Fig. 1) really confirmed the presence of the secondary minimum on the basis of independent observations from many participating observatories. The light curves in the individual filters are covered very well with a relatively small scatter except for the B passband where the light curve is considerably noisy with a deformed shape of the minima. This is connected with the facts that the brightness of the object in the B filter is low and therefore near the limit of a majority of the equipments used. Moreover, the quantum efficiency of the used CCD detectors is reduced in this spectral region. The secondary minimum is clearly visible in all filters, while the depth of the minimum becomes smaller towards the longer wavelengths. The brightness of the object declined by 0.6, 0.5, 0.4 and 0.35 mag in the B, V, R and I filter, respectively. The shape of the secondary minimum is moderately asymmetric, while the decline to the minimum is sharper than the increase from the minimum. According to the ephemeris, published by Hric et al. (2001a), the time of the secondary minimum occurred in the orbital phase of 0.45, which indicates that the orbit could be elliptical. However, this is very unlikely because all of over 20 symbiotic stars with known spectroscopic elements and with orbital periods below 1000 days have circular orbits. A more plausible explanation of this observational fact will be mentioned in the next section. The observational sets are interrupted due to a seasonal gap in winter 2001/2002. In the following observing season, all observatories were integrated again to the monitoring of. The primary minimum, observed in most detail up to now, was unexpectedly deformed by two flares. The shape of the minimum is asymmetric and, in addition, the moment of the minimum of the light curve does not fit the moment of the minimum predicted according to the abovementioned ephemeris.
5 5 The brightness began to increase about a month before the expected moment of the primary minimum and reached the first maximum in JD The next maximum was reached in less than 40 days. The decline of the brightness between these two maxima synchronises with the time of the primary minimum computed according to the ephemeris given by Hric et al. (2001a). It looks like that this activity predicted also the main outburst that occurred around JD Magnitude (V) JD Fig. 2. The V light curve of covering the period The times of minima calculated according to our ephemeris (Hric et al. 2001a) are depicted by vertical dashes. The most pronounced activity of the light curve is a large outburst that appeared in The light curve was covered insufficiently and inhomogeneously before this outburst. Nevertheless, the shape of the curve allows us to suspect the existence of one primary minimum in 1986 and one secondary minimum in Both minima match well our new eclipsing model of the system. The maximum of the brightness of the outburst was reached very quickly after the rise of the event (15 days) and the decline to the preoutburst level was finished 107 days after the maximum. It is evident that the amplitude of the outburst declines towards longer wavelengths. For a given passband, the following amplitudes at maximum were detected: 1.56, 1.04, 0.54 and 0.20 mag in the B, V, R and I filter, respectively. The monotonous decline of brightness from the maximum was interrupted by an apparent dip that is in good agreement with the time of the secondary minimum. Both secondary minima (JD and JD ) occurred in phase of 0.45 according to our ephemeris (Hric et al., 2001a) in spite of that the second one occurred during the main outburst. It is very strong evidence that the secondary minima are due to geometrical eclipses. 4. The eclipsing model Mikolajewska et al. (2002) proposed the phenomenological model to explain the existence of the secondary minimum of in which the periodic changes can be described by a combination of the ellipsoidal effect and sinusoidal variations of the nebular continuum and line emission. Unfortunately, the data used in their analysis had a very large scatter.
6 Our new data revealed the shape of the secondary minimum as well as that of the primary minima with a high accuracy. The first inspection of the light curves of casts doubts on the model by Mikolajewska et al. (2002). Both minima have well defined beginnings and ends and the brightness between the minima changes only slightly. It is also worth noting that in order to describe such light curves it is necessary to take the higher harmonic members (>2) into account, but such an interpretation would be problematic. Nevertheless, we constructed the model curves in particular colours with parameters listed in Table 3 in paper published by Mikolajewska et al. (2002). These curves are depicted by dashed lines in Figs. 3 and 4. It is clear that this phenomenological model does not fit the new B, V, R and I photometric observational data, mainly the shape and the depth of the secondary minima. We tested the interpretation by means of the reflection and ellipsoidal effects using the code assigned to light curve analysis of binaries Binary Maker 2.0 (Bradstreet, 1993). We assumed a simplified binary model: the white dwarf (WD) and the cool giant (c) at or near its Roche lobe. The obtained results are shown in Fig. 3. The starting parameters were set as follows: T WD = K, T c = K, q = M c / M WD = 2. In this case, the reflection effect was so pronounced that the ellipsoidal effect was suppressed, one minimum was absent and the light curve had a sinusoidal shape (doted line in Fig. 3). Because the white dwarf can be embedded in a circumstellar nebula that dramatically changes its radiating characteristics, we decreased the temperature of the white dwarf during the next steps and traced the changes of the synthetic light curves. The second minimum appeared for the temperature T WD < K (dotanddashed line in Fig. 3). For T WD K (solid line in Fig. 3.), both minima had the same depth and for the lower temperatures the secondary minimum was deeper than the primary one. For any combination of input parameters, the synthetic light curves did not respond to the observed light variations either by the shape or by the depth of the minima in the individual passbands. In the next step, we attempted to explain the observed light variations by the eclipsing model (Fig. 4). The size of the white dwarf in any case is not sufficient to produce the minima of the observed duration. As mentioned above, it is probable that the white dwarf is embedded in an expanding envelope (Huang, 1984). If this circumstellar material is optically thick the envelope is able to eclipse the red giant. In such a case, the envelope can be described by the model of stellar atmosphere. The white dwarf was substituted by a normal star and the parameters of the system were optimised to fit the observed light curves by the synthetic ones. The result of this optimisation process is the model with the red giant near to its Roche lobe and the white dwarf embedded in the envelope (en) with the temperature T en = K. The envelope lies inside its Roche lobe. The eclipses of the red giant and the envelope occur during the orbital cycle because the inclination of the orbital plane is i 85. The course of the light curve of can enable us to derive the radius of the envelope around the accretor. As the duration of the secondary minimum we determined the value of 96 days. We have adopted the radius of the giant R g = 110 R as well as the radius of the circular orbit A circ = 403 R by Skopal (2005). Afterwards the radius of the envelope is R en = 100 R for inclination of i 85. The values of the radius and the temperature, derived in the previous item lead to the envelope luminosity L en = 2290 L, which corresponds to absolute bolometric magnitude M en(bol) = 3.65 mag. Using the bolometric correction BC en = 0.88 mag by Lang (2002) we can derive the absolute magnitude of the envelope in V colour M(V) en = 2.77 mag and afterwards the apparent magnitude m(v) en = mag for the distance of the object d = 6.3 kpc (Skopal, 2005). The observed apparent magnitude in the secondary minimum is m(v) en = mag. If we take into account the interstellar reddening for E (B V) = 0.2 mag (Skopal, 2005) we get the corrected apparent magnitude m(v) en = mag. This magnitude is by 1.44 mag less than the value computed on the base of the luminosity of the envelope. The possible explanation of this difference is in a disklike structure of the envelope around the white dwarf. 6
7 Data from literature Data from our campaign Phenomenological model (Mikolajewska 2002) Model with reflection and ellipsoidal behaviour ( K) Model with reflection and ellipsoidal behaviour ( K) Model with reflection and ellipsoidal behaviour ( K) Magnitude (V) JD Fig. 3. The V light curve of with particular models. The blue line represents the phenomenological model with parameters presented by Mikolajewska (2002) which is combination of variable nebular emission and ellipsoidal changes of the red giant. The green line, brown line and red line represent the physical models with reflection and ellipsoidal behaviour with the T WD = K, K and K, respectively I Magnitude R V Phenomenological model (Mikolajewska 2002) Eclipsing model (this paper) B JD Fig. 4. The B, V, R and I light curves of covering one orbital cycle. The blue line represents the phenomenological model with parameters presented by Mikolajewska (2002). The red line represents our best fit of the eclipsing model.
8 8 5. Analysis of the colour indices The light curves of in the individual filters were smoothed by the code HEC13 (author: Dr. Harmanec, method: Vondrák 1969, 1977). This code can fit (only in mathematical frame) a smooth curve to the data no matter what their course is. This code calculates one "fitted" point to each observed point. It makes use of two input parameters, ε and ΔT. ε determines how "tight" the fit will be, that is if just the main course or also the highfrequency variations are to be reproduced. ΔT is the interval over which the data are binned before smoothing. The individual observed light curves in the BVRI filters together with the smoothed fits are shown in Fig. 5. The smoothing yielded very good results for the curves in the V, R, I filters inside the densely covered interval of JD , but it was slightly less reliable for the B band light curve due to a larger noise in the data. The colour index was then determined from the difference between the individual fitted curves in the individual filters, not directly from the observed data. This approach resulted in the curves of the colour indices with a much smaller noise and with more subtle details apparent. These fitted curves of the colour indices together with the original indices are shown in Fig. 6. The following notes consider only the densely covered interval of JD (one primary and one secondary minimum). The temporal course of the indices VR, RI, BV: VR: An almost identical depth (the value of VR) in the primary and secondary minimum is obvious. VR reddens with the decreasing brightness in both minima. RI: The index reddens in both minima (prim. and sec.) but the reddening of RI is much larger in the primary minimum than in the secondary one. A prominent trend of a longterm decrease of RI is apparent between JD and JD A reddening of RI in the secondary minimum is superimposed on this trend. The beginning of the secondary minimum in this index is very clearly visible, a fact, which is in favour of a real secondary eclipse in. The largest reddening of the RI and VR indices (at about JD ) occurred before the real primary minimum (at about JD ). BV: A larger noise and, hence, some small artefacts occurred during fitting but a pronounced decrease of BV in the secondary minimum is real. Approximately the same decrease of BV in about JD (before the primary minimum!) as well as a possible small reddening of BV in the real primary minimum is observed. The waves in the profiles of the colour indices in the rising branch of the eclipse are present in the secondary eclipse and the courses of VR and RI indices are in good agreement with each other. The waves in the rising branch of the light curve of the primary minimum are apparent in the V, R and I filter. The decreases of brightness in the "waves" lead to a reddening in both the VR and RI indices (most prominent near JD ). A striking asymmetry of the profile of the secondary minimum, visible in the V and R filters, was emphasised by a derivation of the fitted light curve in the V and R filters (Figs. 7 and 8). The maximum rate of change of mag(v) (dmag(v)/dt) is the same for the descending and ascending branch of the eclipse but the upper part of the ascending branch is considerably slower and longer than the descending branch (this is true also for the R filter). The derivation of the fitted light curve was applied also to the profile of the primary minimum and the preceding dip. The course of the colour indices can enable us to constrain the region radiating mainly in the B filter. This region is just slightly (partially) eclipsed in the secondary minimum while it is largely eclipsed in the primary one. During the dip that occurred before the primary minimum the region is only slightly (partially) eclipsed. The colours of the dip differ considerably from the colours of the primary minimum.
9 I Magnitude R V B Observarional points Smoothed curves JD Fig. 5. The observed points in B, V, R and I filters are depicted by open circles, triangles, diamonds and asterisks respectively, together with the smoothed fits marked by red lines Magnitude BV RI VR JD Fig. 6. The smoothed curves of colour indices (solid lines) together with original data.
10 V Mag(V) d mag(v) dt d mag(v) / dt JD Fig. 7. The light curve of secondary and primary minima from the smoothed data (top) and derivation of this smoothed light curve (d mag(v)/dt) in V filter (bottom) R Mag(R) d mag(r) dt 0.00 dmag(r)/ dt JD Fig. 8. The light curve of secondary and primary minima from smoothed data (top) and derivation of this smoothed light curve (d mag(r)/dt) in R filter (bottom).
11 11 A possible physical interpretation is that the region, which radiates in B is more vertically extended than the matter radiating in VRI. This region lies in the vicinity of the white dwarf and maybe surrounds it. The dip (JD ) prior to the time of the primary minimum could be caused by a vertically extended region (spray) where the mass stream from the cool donor star impacts on the disk around the white dwarf. This spray (if optically thick) can occult a part of the (outer) disk projected behind this spray. This event is not unusual because the similar behaviour is detected in Xray binaries, not in optical, but in Xray region. The large decrease of BV at this moment can suggest that the inner disk region is just partially occulted (maybe due to a relatively low inclination of the orbital plane or due to a larger vertical extension of the matter radiating in B). 6. Discussion The photometric behaviour of suggests the presence of the optically thick envelope (see section 4). Such envelope would result characteristic spectroscopic appearance that is actually observed. Spectra of are characterised by very strong nebular emission. The emission spectrum rich in Fe II lines was observed during the outburst. The highionization lines of He II were also present (Tatarnikova et al. 2000, 2001). The emission lines ratios are consistent with a model with a nebula photoionised by a hot and luminous companion, probably a white dwarf. If this white dwarf is embedded in an optically thick and extended envelope (to produce measurable eclipses of the red giant), one should not observe the strong high ionisation emission lines in optical and UV spectra. It seems that the envelope is inhomogeneous as suggested also by the determination of envelope luminosity (see section 4) as well as by the variations of the colour indices and the derivation of the light curves (see section 5). The fact that the both observed secondary minima occurred in phase 0.45 can suggest that the envelope is asymmetric against joint of the binary components on circular orbit. The opaque part of envelope around the white dwarf can have a shape of a thick disc with a vertically extended rim or toroid than is optically thick in direction of orbital plane and its size is sufficient to produce observed eclipses of the secondary component. This envelope can be optically thin in the vertical line and thus the circumstellar matter above and below the orbital plane can be photoionised and to generate the observed emission spectral lines. This matter is accelerated by radiation pressure and a bipolar structure of outflows or sprays can be created. If these outflows are oblique (not perpendicular) to the line of sight they should produce two components of particular emission line profiles with opposite mean radial velocities. This model is supported by spectroscopic observations by Huang (1984). He showed that emission Balmer lines are separated into two components by a deep blueshifted reversal. Presence of expanding circumstellar matter is also suggested by the He I (5876, 7065) lines which exhibit distinct P Cyg profiles. The centres of the absorption components are shifted from the emission ones by v r 100 km s 1, suggesting moderate outflow velocities (Tatarnikova et al. 2001). 7. Conclusion The results of a longterm photometric monitoring of symbiotic binary is possible to summarise as follows: The light curve is not possible to explain by the phenomenological model by Mikolajewska et al. (2002). The light behaviour is possible to explain by eclipses of the red giant and presence of an opaque envelope around the white dwarf.
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