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A naked-eye triple system with a nonaccreting black hole in the inner binary

A naked-eye triple system with a nonaccreting black hole in the inner binary

Several dozen optical echelle spectra demonstrate that HR 6819 is a hierarchical triple. A classical Be star is in a wide orbit with an unconstrained period around an inner 40 d binary consisting of a B3 III star and an unseen companion in a circular orbit. The radial-velocity semi-amplitude of …