Time-Series Observations of O Stars. III. IUE and HST Spectroscopy of zeta Ophiuchi and Implications for the ``Photospheric Connection''

Details Time-Series Observations of O Stars. III. IUE and HST Spectroscopy of zeta Ophiuchi and Implications for the ``Photospheric Connection'' Time-Series Observations of O Stars. III. IUE and HST Spectroscopy of zeta Ophiuchi and Implications for the ``Photospheric Connection''

Nov 1993

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Astrophysical Journal v.417, p.338

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Stars: Early-Type, Stars: Individual Constellation Name: Ζ Ophiuchi, Stars: Mass Loss, Ultraviolet: Stars

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Stellar-wind variability in the archetypal nonradially pulsating O star ζ Oph (09.5 V) is discussed on the basis of new time-series lUE and HST spectroscopy and archival results. Time-variable "discrete absorption components" are first observed at high velocities (≳ 103 km s-1 ≃ 0.8υ∞) and then migrate blueward; the recurrence time scale for the phenomenon is ˜20 hr. This is the first record of this type of variability in a luminosity-class V star and provides support for the previously inferred ubiquity of such behavior across the 0-star regime. The accelerations are slower than predicted by steady state wind models and are unlikely to represent the time-averaged velocity law of the outflow. The UV results are discussed in the context of simultaneous optical observations (Paper II); no evidence is found to suggest that nonradial pulsations have any direct role in determining the gross observational characteristics of discrete absorption components, on either long (years) or short (hours) time scales. The line-driven instability provides a promising mechanism to account for variability observed in the UV P Cygni profiles of ζ Oph, and, by extension, in all other O stars.

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