A spatially resolved limb flare on Algol B observed with XMM-Newton

J. H. M. M. Schmitt, J. -U. Ness, G. Franco

We report XMM-Newton observations of the eclipsing binary Algol A (B8V) and B (K2III). The XMM-Newton data cover the phase interval 0.35 - 0.58, i.e., specifically the time of opti…