Spectroscopic Observations of the Mass Donor Star in SS 433
arXiv:0711.4348 · doi:10.1086/587140
Abstract
The microquasar SS 433 is an interacting massive binary consisting of an evolved mass donor and a compact companion that ejects relativistic jets. The mass donor was previously identified through spectroscopic observations of absorption lines in the blue part of the spectrum that showed Doppler shifts associated with orbital motion and strength variations related to the orbital modulation of the star-to-disk flux ratio and to disk obscuration. However, subsequent observations revealed other absorption features that lacked these properties and that were probably formed in the disk gas outflow. We present here follow-up observations of SS 433 at orbital and precession phases identical to those from several previous studies with the goals of confirming the detection of the mass donor spectrum and providing more reliable masses for the two system components. We show that the absorption features present as well as those previously observed almost certainly belong to the mass donor star, and we find revised masses of 12.3 +/- 3.3 and 4.3 +/- 0.8 M(sun) for the mass donor and compact object, respectively.
arXiv comment12 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJL
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