The region of formation of the ultraviolet high temperature resonancelines in the eclipsing binary beta Persei (Algol).
Sahade, J.; Kondo, Y.; Brandi, E.; Garcia, L. G.
Argentina, United States, Colombia
Abstract
A new series of IUE observations of Beta Persei has shown that the high temperature resonance lines of Si IV and C IV arise in a region that surrounds the brighter, early-type component of the system. The continuum spectrum corresponds to that of a B8V object, and the value of E(B-V) that yielded the best match between the two IUE regions was 0.06, the value quoted for Beta Per in Jamar et al.'s (1976) Catalog.