SY Mus – search for physical parameters

SY Mus – search for physical parameters

Aleksandra Leśniewska, Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka, Joanna Mikołajewska and Patricia A. Whitelock

Since Annie J. Cannon separated the new type of objects based on their spectra, symbiotic stars have become widely analyzed as binary stars. In our work we focus on describing one of them, i.e. SY Mus. It is an eclipsing symbiotic system composed of a white dwarf (WD) and a red giant (RG), located in the southern sky. With the use of observational data in the infrared (IR) bands, we determined physical parameters of the object, such as masses and radii. We used PHOEBE tools to model all the observations.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 7, 207-209 (2018)

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