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BRITE photometry of the massive post-RLOF system HD149404
G. Rauw, A. Pigulski, Y. Nazé +12
HD149404 is an evolved non-eclipsing O-star binary that has previously undergone a Roche lobe overflow interaction. Understanding some key properties of the system requires a deter…
Short-term variability and mass loss in Be stars IV. Two groups of closely spaced, approximately equidistant frequencies in three decades of space photometry of Puppis (B7-8 IIIe)
D. Baade, A. Pigulski, Th. Rivinius +13
In early-type Be stars, groups of nonradial pulsation (NRP) modes with numerically related frequencies may be instrumental for the release of excess angular momentum through mass-e…
Physics of Eclipsing Binaries. III. Spin-Orbit Misalignment
Martin Horvat, Kyle E. Conroy, Herbert Pablo +4
Binary systems where the axis of rotation (spin) of one or both components is tilted w.r.t. the axis of revolution are called misaligned binary systems. The angle of misalignment,…
The Shortest-period Wolf-Rayet binary in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Part of a high-order multiple system
T. Shenar, R. Hainich, H. Todt +8
SMC AB 6 is the shortest-period (6.5d) Wolf-Rayet (WR) binary in the Small Magellanic Cloud, and is therefore crucial for the study of binary interaction and formation of WR stars…
Light-curve instabilities of Beta Lyrae observed by the BRITE satellites
Slavek M. Rucinski, Andrzej Pigulski, Adam Popowicz +9
Photometric instabilities of Lyr were observed in 2016 by two red-filter BRITE satellites over more than 10 revolutions of the binary, with 100-minute sampling. Analysis…
BRITE-Constellation reveals evidence for pulsations in the enigmatic binary Carinae
Noel D. Richardson, Herbert Pablo, Christiaan Sterken +15
Car is a massive, eccentric binary with a rich observational history. We obtained the first high-cadence, high-precision light curves with the BRITE-Constellation nanosatellite…