J 2008

The record-breaking rotational deceleration of the He strong CP star HD 37776 (V901 Ori)

MIKULÁŠEK, Zdeněk, Jiří KRTIČKA, Juraj ZVERKO, G.W. HENRY, Jan JANÍK et. al.

Basic information

Original name

The record-breaking rotational deceleration of the He strong CP star HD 37776 (V901 Ori)

Name in Czech

Rekordní rotační brždění He silné chemicky pekuliární hvězdy HD 37776 (V901 Ori)

Authors

MIKULÁŠEK, Zdeněk (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Jiří KRTIČKA (203 Czech Republic), Juraj ZVERKO (703 Slovakia), G.W. HENRY (840 United States of America), Jan JANÍK (203 Czech Republic), I.I. ROMANYUK (643 Russian Federation), Jozef ŽIŽNOVSKÝ (703 Slovakia), Hrvoje BOŹIČ (191 Croatia), Miloslav ZEJDA (203 Czech Republic), Tomáš GRÁF (203 Czech Republic) and Martin NETOLICKÝ (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovak Republic, Astronomický ústav SAV, 2008, 1335-1842

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/08:00024754

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000256514000061

Keywords in English

stars: chemically peculiar; stars: early type; stars: variables; stars: individual: HD37776; stars: rotation; methods: data analysis;

Tags

International impact
Změněno: 24/6/2009 11:25, doc. RNDr. Miloslav Zejda, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

We study the long-term light and spectral variations in the He-strong, magnetic chemically peculiar star HD37776 to search for changes of its 1.5387d period in 1976 - 2007. We analyze all published photometric observations and spectrophotometry in the He I 4026 A line. The data were supplemented with 506 new UVB observations obtained during the last 2 observing seasons, 66 estimates of He I equivalent widths on 23 CFHT spectrograms and 69 on Zeeman spectrograms from the 6-m telescope. All the 1895 particular observations have been processed simultaneously. We confirm the previously suspected increase of the period which is a record among CP stars. The mean rate of the period increase during the last 31 years is 0.541+/-0.020 s per year. We interpret this ongoing period increase as the slowing down of the star's surface rotation due to momentum loss through events and processes in its magnetosphere.

In Czech

We study the long-term light and spectral variations in the He-strong, magnetic chemically peculiar star HD37776 to search for changes of its 1.5387d period in 1976 - 2007. We analyze all published photometric observations and spectrophotometry in the He I 4026 A line. The data were supplemented with 506 new UVB observations obtained during the last 2 observing seasons, 66 estimates of He I equivalent widths on 23 CFHT spectrograms and 69 on Zeeman spectrograms from the 6-m telescope. All the 1895 particular observations have been processed simultaneously. We confirm the previously suspected increase of the period which is a record among CP stars. The mean rate of the period increase during the last 31 years is 0.541+/-0.020 s per year. We interpret this ongoing period increase as the slowing down of the star's surface rotation due to momentum loss through events and processes in its magnetosphere.

Links

GA205/06/0217, research and development project
Name: Nové postupy ve zpracování a interpretaci pozorování proměnných hvězd
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, New approaches to variable stars data processing and interpretation