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1996A&A...315L..19J - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 315, L19-22 (1996/11-1)

Excess barium in a K dwarf-white dwarf binary system.

JEFFRIES R.D. and SMALLEY B.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present spectroscopic evidence for an excess of the s-process element barium, in the rapidly rotating, K-dwarf component of the wide binary system 2REJ0357+283. The secondary star is a hot white dwarf (WD) and our result argues for a model where the K-star has accreted mass and angular momentum from the asymptotic giant branch progenitor of the WD and lends strong support to the wind-accretion hypothesis for barium giant formation. If our tentative detection of excess carbon can be confirmed, then we propose that 2REJ0357+283 is very similar to the two dwarf carbon star plus hot WD binary systems that have been found recently.

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Journal keyword(s): stars: abundances - stars: carbon - binaries: general - stars: rotation - stars: white dwarfs - ultraviolet: stars

Simbad objects: 4

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