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The Detection and Characterization of Be+sdO Binaries from HST/STIS FUV Spectroscopy

Gies, Douglas R.; Lester, Kathryn V.; Wang, Luqian +4 more

The B emission-line stars are rapid rotators that were probably spun up by mass and angular momentum accretion through mass transfer in an interacting binary. Mass transfer will strip the donor star of its envelope to create a small and hot subdwarf remnant. Here we report on Hubble Space Telescope/STIS far-ultraviolet spectroscopy of a sample of …