Astronomy:BB Doradus

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Short description: Cataclysmic variable star in the constellation Dorado
BB Dor
BBDorLightCurve.png
A visual band light curve for BB Doradus, adapted from Rodríguez-Gil et al. (2012)[1]
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Dorado
Right ascension  05h 29m 28.66s
Declination −58° 54′ 46.7″
Apparent magnitude (V) 14.3-19.3
Characteristics
Spectral type WD + M3-4V
Variable type SW Sex[2]
Astrometry
Parallax (π)1.0871 ± 0.0263 mas
Distance3,000 ± 70 ly
(920 ± 20 pc)
Absolute magnitude (MV)15.52[3]
Details
Temperature9365 K
Other designations
BB Dor, GSC 08530-00528, AAVSO 0528-58, EC 05287-5857, 1RXS J0529-5854.
Database references
SIMBADdata

BB Doradus or BB Dor is a cataclysmic variable, a pre-nova star, thus a close pair binary star system. It is composed of a red dwarf and a white dwarf.[4] Observations of the white dwarf's faint but certain accretion disk are consistent with it being at ~10° inclination (to the line of sight from the Earth).[5]

Its parallax (movement against background stars due to the Earth's orbit around the Sun) given by the Gaia space observatory's second data release puts the pair at about 3,000 light years away.[6]

References

  1. Rodríguez-Gil, P.; Schmidtobreick, L.; Long, K. S.; Gänsicke, B. T.; Torres, M. A. P.; Rubio-Díez, M. M.; Santander-García, M. (May 2012). "The fight for accretion: discovery of intermittent mass transfer in BB Doradus in the low state". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 422 (3): 2332–2340. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20783.x. Bibcode2012MNRAS.422.2332R. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012MNRAS.422.2332R. Retrieved 1 January 2022. 
  2. Schmidtobreick, L.; Rodríguez-Gil, P.; Long, K. S.; Gänsicke, B. T.; Tappert, C. (October 2011). "The structure of BB Doradus in quiescence". in Henney, W. J.; Torres-Peimbert, S.. XIII Latin American Regional IAU Meeting. 40. 288-288. Bibcode2011RMxAC..40..288S. 
  3. "V* BB Dor". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=V%2A+BB+Dor. 
  4. Watson, Christopher (24 February 2012). "BB Doradus". AAVSO Website. American Association of Variable Star Observers. http://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=13669. 
  5. Godon, Patrick et al. (November 2008). "Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Spectroscopy of the Nova-like Cataclysmic Variable BB Doradus". The Astrophysical Journal 687 (1): 532–541. doi:10.1086/591494. Bibcode2008ApJ...687..532G. 
  6. Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode2018A&A...616A...1G.  Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.