A Study of the Herbig Be Binary/FU Orionis Object Z CMa

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Authors	HUBRIG Swetlana MIKULÁŠEK Zdeněk SCHÖLLER M. GONZÁLES J. F. SCHÜTZ O. STELZER B. ZEJDA Miloslav ŠMELCER Ladislav BRÁT Luboš
Year of publication	2010
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	ASP Conference Series 435 - Binaries - Key to Comprehension to the Universe
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
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Field	Astronomy and astrophysics
Keywords	FU Ori; Herbig; Be binaries; Z CMa
Description	ZCMa is a young visual binary star with a FU Ori companion. The primary star is in an outburst state since February 2008. We acquired photometric, spectroscopic, spectropolarimetric, and X-ray Chandra observations to study the mechanism causing violent outbursts in this kind of systems.
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