MWC656: A Be+BH or a Be+sdO?

Abstract

MWC656 has been reported as classical Be star with a black hole companion. Revisited spectral variability properties render this unlikely, with a hot subdwarf more probable.

To be published in IAUS361 proceedings

Cited by in corpus (1)

• The B-type Binaries Characterisation Programme II. VFTS 291: A stripped star from a recent mass transfer phase