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Title: The Herbig Ae SB2 System HD 104237
Authors: Charles R. Cowley, Fiorella Castelli, Swetlana Hubrig

The double-lined spectroscopic binary HD 104237 (DX Cha) is part of a complex system of some half-dozen nearby young stars. We report a significant change from an orbit for the SB2 system derived from 1999-2000 observations. We obtain abundances from the primary and secondary spectra. The abundance analysis uses both detailed spectral synthesis and determinations based on equivalent widths of weak absorption lines with W(lambda) typically < 25 mA. Abundances are derived for 25 elements in the primary, and 17 elements in the secondary. Apart from lithium and zirconium, abundances do not depart significantly from solar. Lithium may be marginally enhanced with respect to the meteoritic value in the primary. It somewhat depleted in the secondary. The emission-line spectrum is typical of Herbig Ae stars. We compare and contrast the spectra of the HD 104237 primary and two other Herbig Ae stars with low v.sin(i), HD 101412 and HD 190073.

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Title: Pre-main-sequence binaries with tidally disrupted discs: the Br gamma in HD 104237
Authors: P. J. V. Garcia, M. Benisty, C. Dougados, F. Bacciotti, J.-M. Clausse, F. Massi, A. Mérand, R. Petrov, G. Weigelt

Active pre-main-sequence binaries with separations of around ten stellar radii present a wealth of phenomena unobserved in common systems. The study of these objects is extended from Classical T Tauri stars to the Herbig Ae star HD 104237. Spectro-interferometry with the VLTI/AMBER is presented.
It is found that the K-band continuum squared visibilities are compatible with a circumbinary disc with a radius of ~0.5 AU. However, a significant fraction (~50 per cent) of the flux is unresolved and not fully accounted by the stellar photospheres. The stars probably don't hold circumstellar discs, in addition to the circumbinary disk, due to the combined effects of inner magnetospheric truncation and outer tidal truncation. This unresolved flux likely arises in compact structures inside the tidally disrupted circumbinary disc.
Most (\gtrsim 90%) of the Br gamma line emission is unresolved. The line-to-continuum spectro-astrometry shifts in time, along the direction of the Ly alpha jet known to be driven by the system. The shift is anti-correlated with the Br gamma equivalent width. It is shown that the unresolved Br gamma emission cannot originate in the jet but instead is compatible with stellar emission from the orbiting binary components. The increase in the absolute value of the equivalent width of the line takes place at periastron passage; it could arise in an accretion burst, a flare or in the increase in effective size of the emission region by the interaction of the magnetospheres. The binary longitude of the ascending node is found to be \Omega=(235±3)° and the orbit retrograde.
The origin of the jet is revisited. The tidal disruption of the circumstellar disks creates difficulties to ejection models that rely on stellar magnetosphere and disc coupling. A scenario of a stellar wind collimated by a circumbinary disc wind is suggested.

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