The characteristics of the cool component of the cataclysmic binary AE Aquarii derived from its HIPPARCOS parallax

Friedjung, Michael

France

Abstract

Observations of the parallax of the cataclysmic binary AE Aqr, using the HIPPARCOS satellite, are combined with the published spectrum and magnitudes in the K band. The radius of the cool component of the binary is probably significantly larger than that of a main sequence star of the same spectral type, though the errors and uncertainties do not make this result completely certain.

1997 New Astronomy
Hipparcos 26