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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2023

Discovery of Magnetospheric Interactions in the Doubly-Magnetic Hot Binary $\epsilon$ Lupi

Ayan Biswas
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Barnali Das
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Poonam Chandra
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Gregg A Wade
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Matthew E Shultz
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Francesco Cavallaro
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Veronique Petit
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Patrick A Woudt
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Magnetic fields are extremely rare in close, hot binaries, with only 1.5% of such systems known to contain a magnetic star. The eccentric $\epsilon$ Lupi system stands out in this population as the only close binary in which both stars are known to be magnetic. We report the discovery of strong, variable radio emission from $\epsilon$ Lupi using the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) and the MeerKAT radio telescope.The light curve exhibits striking, unique characteristics including sharp, high-amplitude pulses that repeat with the orbital period, with the brightest enhancement occurring near periastron. The characteristics of the light curve point to variable levels of magnetic reconnection throughout the orbital cycle, making $\epsilon$ Lupi the first known high-mass, main sequence binary embedded in an interacting magnetosphere. We also present a previously unreported enhancement in the X-ray light curve obtained from archival XMM-Newton data. The stability of the components' fossil magnetic fields, the firm characterization of their relatively simple configurations, and the short orbital period of the system make $\epsilon$ Lupi an ideal target to study the physics of magnetospheric interactions. This system may thus help us to illuminate the exotic plasma physics of other magnetically interacting systems such as moon-planet, planet-star, and star-star systems including T Tauri binaries, RS CVn systems, and neutron star binaries.
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hal-04150085 , version 1 (24-05-2024)

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Ayan Biswas, Barnali Das, Poonam Chandra, Gregg A Wade, Matthew E Shultz, et al.. Discovery of Magnetospheric Interactions in the Doubly-Magnetic Hot Binary $\epsilon$ Lupi. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023, 523 (4), pp.5155-5170. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stad1756⟩. ⟨hal-04150085⟩
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