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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 719, Issue 1, Pages 634-641Publisher
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DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/719/1/634
Keywords
binaries: spectroscopic; stars: early-type; stars: emission-line, Be; stars: individual (Cyg OB2 No. 9); X-rays: stars
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- ESA Member States
- USA (NASA)
- FRS/FNRS (Belgium)
- Scientific Cooperation program, Italy
- Scientific Cooperation program, Belgian
- European Community [RG226604]
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After the first detection of its binary nature, the spectroscopic monitoring of the non-thermal radio emitter Cyg OB2 No. 9 (P = 2.4 yr) has continued, doubling the number of available spectra of the star. Since the discovery paper of 2008, a second periastron passage has occurred in 2009 February. Using a variety of techniques, the radial velocities could be estimated and a first, preliminary orbital solution was derived from the He i.5876 line. The mass ratio appears close to unity and the eccentricity is large, i.e., 0.7-0.75. X-ray data from 2004 and 2007 are also analyzed in quest of peculiarities linked to binarity. The observations reveal neither large overluminosity nor strong hardness, but it must be noted that the high-energy data were taken after the periastron passage, at a time where colliding wind emission may be low. Some unusual X-ray variability is however detected, with a 10% flux decrease between 2004 and 2007. To clarify their origin and find a more obvious signature of the wind-wind collision, additional data, taken at periastron and close to it, are needed.
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