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Potential Detection of Secular Evolution of Chemical Abundances on the Surface of the HgMn Primary in the Triple System χ Lup
Se dectriben las detecciones en: HgMn Primary in the Triple System χ Lup realizadas con instrumentos del CASLEO.Fil: Järvinen, Silva. Leibniz Institute For Astrophysics Potsdam; AlemaniaFil: Chojnowski, Drew. New Mexico State University.; Estados UnidosFil: Gonzalez, Jorge Federico. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Juan. Instituto de Ciencias Astronómicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. Instituto de Ciencias Astronómicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio; ArgentinaFil: Hubrig, Swetlana. Leibniz Institute For Astrophysics Potsdam; AlemaniaFil: Schöller, Marcus. European Southern Observatory; AlemaniaFil: Ilyin, llya. Leibniz Institute For Astrophysics Potsdam; AlemaniaFil: Hummel, Christian. European Southern Observatory; AlemaniaFil: Korhonen, Heidi. Universidad de Copenhagen; DinamarcaFil: Scholz, Ralf. Leibniz Institute For Astrophysics Potsdam; Alemani
Trumpler 16-26: A New Centrifugal Magnetosphere Discovered via SDSS/APOGEE H-band Spectroscopy
We report the discovery of a new example of the rare class of highly
magnetized, rapidly rotating, helium enhanced, early B stars that produce
anomalously wide hydrogen emission due to a centrifugal magnetosphere (CM). The
star is Trumpler 16-26, a B1.5 V member of the Trumpler 16 open cluster. A CM
was initially suspected based on hydrogen Brackett series emission observed in
SDSS/APOGEE -band spectra. Similar to the other stars of this type, the
emission was highly variable and at all times remarkable due to the extreme
velocity separations of the double peaks (up to 1300 km s.) Another clue
lay in the TESS lightcurve, which shows two irregular eclipses per cycle when
phased with the likely 0.9718115 day rotation period, similar to the behavior
of the well known CM host star Ori E. To confirm a strong magnetic
field and rotation-phase-locked variability, we initiated a follow-up campaign
consisting of optical spectropolarimetry and spectroscopy. The associated data
revealed a longitudinal magnetic field varying between and kG
with the period found from photometry. The optical spectra confirmed rapid
rotation ( km s), surface helium enhancement, and wide,
variable hydrogen emission. Tr16-26 is thus confirmed as the 20
known, the fourth most rapidly rotating, and the faintest CM host star yet
discovered. With a projected dipole magnetic field strength of
kG, Tr16-26 is also among the most magnetic CM stars
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