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Binary S and MS Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Hollis R. Johnson
Hollis R. Johnson*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department SW 319, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405 U.S.A.

Abstract

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We assemble and discuss evidence for binarity in S and MS stars - stars that are enriched in s-process elements. A popular view is that Tc-deficient S and MS stars are not thermally pulsing AGB stars but are mass-transfer binaries. We describe several methods used to test this hypothesis through a search for the putative white-dwarf companion: (1) periodic radial velocity variations, (2) direct observation of the hot companions with IUE, (3) evidence of a hot gas cloud (hotter than a chromosphere) in the system, and (4) evidence of circumstellar dust as revealed through infrared radiation. Results of these methods are compared. All evidence supports the idea that Tc-deficient S and MS stars are mass-transfer binaries, and a large fraction appear to be interactive.

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