Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Department

Physical & Earth Sciences

Abstract

We present orbit-resolved spectroscopy and orbit-sampled photometry of the binary system PG 1114+187. Both photometry and radial velocity studies reveal a period P = 1.75992 days, which is taken to be the orbital period of the binary. Strong modulation of emission-line strength with the same period is also present. A preliminary mass ratio, M2/M1 ‰ˆ 0.7, is found from primary- and secondary-star radial velocity amplitudes. No evidence is seen for either an accretion disk or mass transfer, leading to the conclusion that PG 1114+187 is not a cataclysmic variable (CV) but is in a pre-CV state, before the initiation of mass transfer. The short orbital period also leads to the conclusion that the system passed through a common-envelope phase at some time in the past. The current list of known post-common-envelope and precataclysmic binary stars is also reviewed and the general properties of this class of star are discussed."

DOI

10.1086/301479

First Page

1113

Last Page

1119

Volume

120

Issue

2

Publication Title

Astronomical Journal

ISSN

0004-6256

Comments

© 2000 American Astronomical Society.

Robertson, Jeff, Honeycutt, R., et al. 2000. "Post-Common-Envelope Binary Stars and the Precataclysmic Binary PG 1114+187." Astronomical Journal. 120(2): 1113-1119. doi:10.1086/301479

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