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On the Masses and on the Mass Transfer in the Interactive Binary SS 433

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Tomaž Zwitter ,
Sandro D'Odorico ,
Tom Oosterloo  and
Massimo Calvani
Tomaž Zwitter
Affiliation:
University of Ljubljana, Dept. of Physics, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sandro D'Odorico
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany
Tom Oosterloo
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany
Massimo Calvani
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory, Padua, Italy

Abstract

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Recent spectroscopic observations of the interactive binary SS 433 with the ESO's New Technology Telescope show that the compact object is a neutron star. We note that the huge mass transfer rate (which may well be the reason for the uniqueness of SS 433) suggests that a significant fraction of the mass lost from the normal star actually settles on the neutron star. This may have important consequences for the structure of the accretion disk and for the formation of jets in this peculiar system.

Type
Oral and Contributed Papers
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 151: Evolutionary Processes in Interacting Binary Stars , 1992 , pp. 465 - 467
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1992 

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