2004A&A...422.1013H

A new reduction and a new analysis of a rich series of high-S/N spectra of the bright star κ Sco is carried out to test the technique of spectral disentangling in the case when one of the components is a non-radial oscillator. We improve the orbital elements of the system and find the basic physical properties of the binary to be T_eff=24500K, masses of 10.7-11.9M_☉ and 9.6-10.7M_☉ and the primary radius and rotational period of 7-8R_☉ and 3.56-3.68d, respectively. This also implies logg=3.70-3.78[cgs]. KOREL disentangling is applied and we find that it worked properly and was not misled by the complex line-profile variability of the pulsating primary. Moreover, the pulsational frequencies are detected via the period search in the line intensities and radial-velocity residuals of the primary derived by KOREL and in the time series of residual spectra in the rest frame of the primary after KOREL disentangling. This constitutes a much better starting point to interpret the complex pixel-by-pixel variations of the disentangled profiles of the primary in terms of stellar oscillations and/or additional rotational modulation than the original spectra before disentangling.