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S. Wolf
Universitätssternwarte München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679
München, Germany
Keith Horne
University of St. Andrews, School of Physics and Astronomy,
North Haugh, Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland, UK
T.R. Marsh
University of Southampton, Department of Physics, Highfield,
Southampton S017 1BJ, England, UK
Keywords: binaries, cataclysmic variables
The eclipsing dwarf nova IP Peg has been monitored since 1990 using the high-speed multichannel multicolor photometer (MCCP) of the Universitaets-Sternwarte Muenchen (USM). Several UBVRI eclipse runs in 1992 and 1994 are simultaneous with HST observations, affording a very wide 1200--8000Å wavelength range to study the radiation characteristics of different components ranging from the cool secondary star to the hottest accretion regions in the inner disk and the bright spot where the gas stream crashes into the disk rim.
Our LFIT code decomposes time-resolved spectral data into N components with parameterized light curve shapes, solving for the spectra of each component. We used this successfully on HST spectra covering an OY Car eclipse to isolate separate spectra of the white dwarf, bright spot, and disk components (Horne et al. 1994). To apply this algorithm to the HST and UBVRI eclipses of IP Peg, we add an ellipsoidal light curve for the companion star, and a more detailed description of the bright spot. A program demonstration and first results of component light curves and spectra are presented.
LFIT is a program which decomposes eclipse light curves by fitting
a N-component light curve model to the observational data. Each component
is described by
parameters. The whole set of parameters
(
, number of parameters) defines the shape of the model
light curve
which are fitted to the observed data
at each phase
and wavelength
. The scaled sum of all N light
curves builds the total model light curve. The wavelength depending scaling
factors
derived by a linear least square fit to the data finally
represent the mean spectrum of each component:
Thus this algorithm allows a simultaneous decomposition of light curves and spectra.
In this case the model light curve is divided up into 4 components: the primary (white dwarf), the secondary, the accretion disk, and the bright spot.
Figure 1 (top left) shows the assumed fundamental CV-Model (bright spot profile
and orbital plane), the -evolution of the fit, the final parameter
values and at the bottom the fit to the HST-data light curve of IP Peg on the
4th of November, 1992.
The following part will be confined exemplarily to the third run observed on the 4th of November, 1992. For details on the data processing and the observational equipment see Baptista et al. (1994).
The bright spot is the most prominent feature seen in the light curves of IP Peg, manifested by the hump around phase -0.2, before going into a remarkably deep eclipse due to the occulting secondary star. At the end of the eclipse, the white dwarf is first to come into the line of sight followed by the egress of the bright spot---both phenomena represented by small steps in the light curve at phase 0.04 and 0.08, respectively.
Figure 1 (bottom left) shows the best light curve fit to the HST data of run 3:
The fit itself, the component light curves (dashed and dotted lines), the
observation and the residuals of the fit at the bottom of the plot. The latter
may be interpreted as flaring or flickering, especially during phases before
the eclipse. The fit reproduces the shape of the eclipse in almost every
detail---the egress of the white dwarf and the bright spot are well copied. Only
during the hump phase () the fit deviates largely, as none
of the components describes such a high frequency feature.
The corresponding parameter space which leads to this best fit is displayed
on the top panel of figure 1.
The parameters are basically not in contradiction to values derived
by an UBVRI fit. Fixing the mass ratio and the white dwarf's
width of eclipse while running the fit to the UBVRI data, the rest of the
parameters did not extremely deviate from those of the HST-fit. The disk radius
increased by 20%. That is not unusual, as the disk radius may change between
successive outbursts. The direction of maximal bright spot flux emission
changed to a smaller angle, so that the emission is not as perpendicular to the
gas stream's trajectory as in the case of the HST observing run.
As already seen in the component light curves, the primary is the faintest object of IP Peg in the UV and so is the spectrum, there is almost no signal (figure 1, right). The brightest feature is the hump, thus the spectrum of the bright spot is the strongest. The most striking feature in the disk spectrum is the CIV line, which is not present in other components---in the bright spot spectrum it seems rather to be in absorption. The HeII line which is usually seen during outburst, disappeared in these quiescence data.
In future projects we will try to improve the quality of fit. The fit seems to
prefer larger values at the short side of Ly. Looking at the light
curve's behavior approaching these wavelengths, you will find a change of the
eclipse shape, which may be the cause of the tendency in the fit (figure 1,
right). Moreover, our biggest efforts will be, to build a model of the most
prominent UV feature, the bright spot, by fitting a series of bright spot
profiles to the region, where the gas stream crashes into the disk. Together
with the long timebased UBVRI-data and the HST-UV-data we should be able to
determine temperature distributions and fluctuations as well as mass transfer
rates which are closely connected to the crucial parameter, the viscosity of
the disk.
Baptista, R. et al. The HST Observations of IP Pegasi: A First Look at the Data 1994, ASP Conf. Series, 56, 259.
Horne, T. et al. 1994, ApJ, 426, 294.