Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-07-31
Astrophys.J. 579 (2002) 725-740
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
41 pages, 9 figures, to be published in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/342879
Bipolar outflows are present in many disk-accreting astrophysical systems. In disk-accreting cataclysmic variables (CVs), these outflows are responsible for most of the strong features in the ultraviolet spectra of these systems. However, there have been few attempts to model these features quantitatively. Here, we describe a new, hybrid Monte Carlo/Sobolev code, which allows us to synthesize the complete spectrum of a disk-dominated, mass-losing CV. The line profiles we calculate for C IV resemble those calculated by previous workers when an identical geometry is assumed. However, our synthetic spectra exhibit not only the well-known resonance lines of O VI, N V, Si IV and C IV, but, with an appropriate choice of mass-loss rate and wind geometry, also many lines originating from excited lower states. Many of these lines have already been seen in the far ultraviolet spectra of CVs obtained with HUT, FUSE, and HST. In order to illustrate the degree to which we are currently able to reproduce observed spectra, we finally present a preliminary fit to the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope spectrum of the dwarf nova Z Cam in outburst.
Knigge Christian
Long Knox S.
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