IUE spectra of a flare in the RS Canum Venaticorum-type system UX Arietis.

Simon, T., J. L. Linsky, and III Schiffer, F. H., IUE spectra of a flare in the RS Canum Venaticorum-type system UX Arietis., ApJ, 239, 911-918 (1980) (ADS)

The cartoon

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Opportunities for magnetic hanky-panky become richer if one has more than one solitary star to play with. Other elements could be a binary companion (this cartoon, or the earlier Uchida-Sakurai cartoon, not to mention accretion disks, planets, and massive winds. Here the two stars are named as labeled.

Date: 2019 December 07