IUE studies of the Wolf-Rayet binaries HD 186943 and HD 211853 duringeclipse.

Hutchings, J. B.; Massey, P.

Canada

Abstract

IUE spectra have been obtained of the WR binaries HD 186943 and HD 211853 at different orbital phases. Eclipse effects are small in the UV spectra of these stars. For both systems there is an "eclipse" of the continuum flux < 1500 Å at the time of primary conjunction (WR star in front), and, for HD 186943, a comparable decrease of the strongest emission-line fluxes.

1983 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
IUE 15