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28 March 2024
 
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First results with the IOTA3 imaging interferometer: The spectroscopic binaries lambda Vir and WR 140
J.D. Monnier ; W. Traub ; F.P. Schloerb ; R. Millan-Gabet ; J.-P. Berger ; E. Pedretti ; N. Carleton ; S. Kraus ; M. Lacasse ; M. Brewer ; S. Ragland ; A. Ahearn ; C. Coldwell ; P. Haguenauer ; P. Kern ; P. Labeye ; L. Lagny ; F. Malbet ; D. Malin ; P. Maymounkov ; S. Morel ; C. Papaliolios ; K. Perraut ; M. Pearlman ; I. Porro ; I. Schanen ; K. Souccar ; G. Torres ; G. Wallace ( Michigan CfA Amherst MSC Grenoble Alcatel LETI-CEA ESO MIT ;
Date 14 Dec 2003
Journal Astrophys.J. 602 (2004) L57-L60
Subject astro-ph
Affiliation10), K. Souccar , G. Torres , G. Wallace ( Michigan CfA Amherst MSC Grenoble Alcatel LETI-CEA ESO MIT (10) IMEP-INPG
AbstractWe report the first spatially-resolved observations of the spectroscopic binaries lambda Vir and WR 140, which includes the debut of aperture-synthesis imaging with the upgraded three-telescope IOTA interferometer. Using IONIC-3, a new integrated optics beam combiner capable of precise closure phase measurement, short observations were sufficient to extract the angular separation and orientation of each binary system and the component brightness ratio. Most notably, the underlying binary in the prototypical colliding-wind source WR 140 (WC7 + O4/5) was found to have a separation of ~13 milli-arcseconds with a position angle consistent with the images of the 2001 dust shell ejection only if the Wolf-Rayet star is fainter than the O star at 1.65 microns. We also highlight lambda Vir whose peculiar stellar properties of the Am star components will permit direct testing of current theories of tidal evolution when the full orbit is determined.
Source arXiv, astro-ph/0401268
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