PERIODIC RADIO CONTINUUM EMISSION ASSOCIATED WITH THE β CEPHEI STAR V2187 CYG

We present new optical time-resolved photometry and medium-resolution spectroscopy of V2187 Cyg. We confirm its classification as a β Cephei star based on sinusoidal light variations with a period of 0.2539 days and mean amplitudes of 0.037 and 0.042 magnitudes in i and V , respectively. We classifi...

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Autores: Mauricio Tapia, Luis F. Rodríguez, Gagik Tovmassian, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Diego González-Buitrago, Sergei Zharikov, Gisela N. Ortiz-León
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:México
Institución:Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Repositorio:Redalyc-UNAM
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:57131044015
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57131044015
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Física, Astronomía y Matemáticas
β Cephei)
stars — stars
Radio continuum
individual (V1287 Cyg
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Sumario:We present new optical time-resolved photometry and medium-resolution spectroscopy of V2187 Cyg. We confirm its classification as a β Cephei star based on sinusoidal light variations with a period of 0.2539 days and mean amplitudes of 0.037 and 0.042 magnitudes in i and V , respectively. We classified the spectrum of this star as B2-3 V with no evidence of variations in the profiles of its absorption lines in timescales of hours or days. The stellar spectrum is totally absent of emis- sion lines. We detected unexpected faint radio continuum emission (between 0.4 and 0.8 mJy at 6-cm) showing a sinusoidal variation with a period of 12.8 days. The radio spectrum is thermal. We searched in the Very Large Array archive for radio continuum emission toward 15 other β Cephei stars. None of these additional stars, some of them much closer to the Sun than V2187 Cyg, was detected, indicating that radio emission from β Cephei stars is extremely uncommon.