Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 1981
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981mnras.194..547c&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 194, Feb. 1981, p. 547-567. Research supported by the Science Research
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Planetary Nebulae, Stellar Mass Ejection, Stellar Spectra, Ultraviolet Astronomy, Gas Ionization, Helium, Line Spectra, O Stars, Optical Thickness, Oxygen Spectra
Scientific paper
An ultraviolet spectrum of the central star of NGC 6543 has been obtained at low dispersion with the short wave camera of the IUE satellite, and the terminal velocity of the stellar wind has been estimated at 2150 km/s. By assuming the effective temperature to be the Zanstra temperature of 43,000 K and the luminosity to be that derived from the evolutionary tracks of Paczynski (1971), the stellar radius is found to be 0.8 solar radius. A mass loss rate of the order of 10 to the -7th solar masses per year is deduced from the optically thin UV P Cygni lines and found to be reasonably consistent with the lambda 4686 He II emission. No evidence of marked abundance anomalies in the central star has been found.
Castor John I.
Lutz Jack H.
Seaton M. J.
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