Ultraviolet line diagnostics of accretion disk winds in cataclysmic variables

Details Ultraviolet line diagnostics of accretion disk winds in cataclysmic variables Ultraviolet line diagnostics of accretion disk winds in cataclysmic variables

Jun 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993apj...410..815v&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 410, no. 2, p. 815-828.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Accretion Disks, Cataclysmic Variables, Stellar Winds, Ultraviolet Spectra, Iue, Line Spectra, Photoionization, Stellar Models, Stellar Rotation, White Dwarf Stars

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The IUE data base is used to analyze the UV line shapes of the cataclysmic variables RW Sex, RW Tri, and V Sge. Observed lines are compared to synthetic line profiles computed using a model of rotating biconical winds from accretion disks. The wind model calculates the wind ionization structure self-consistently including photoionization from the disk and boundary layer and treats 3D line radiation transfer in the Sobolev approximation. It is found that winds from accretion disks provide a good fit for reasonable parameters to the observed UV lines which include the P Cygni profiles for low-inclination systems and pure emission at large inclination. Disk winds are preferable to spherical winds which originate on the white dwarf because they: (1) require a much lower ratio of mass-loss rate to accretion rate and are therefore more plausible energetically; (2) provide a natural source for a biconical distribution of mass outflow which produces strong scattering far above the disk leading to P Cygni profiles for low-inclination systems and pure line emission profiles at high inclination with the absence of eclipses in UV lines; and (3) produce rotation-broadened pure emission lines at high inclination.

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