AG Dra -- a high density plasma laboratory

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Jul 2002

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HST Proposal ID #9510

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Hst Proposal Id #9510

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A STIS observation of the symbiotic star AG Draconis yielding spectra in the range 1150--10 000 Angstrom is requested. AG Dra is a non-eclipsing binary that shows strong, narrow nebular emission lines that originate in the wind of a K giant, photoionized by a hot white dwarf. The density of the nebula is around 10^10 electrons/cm^3 and is the perfect laboratory for testing the plasma modeling codes cloudy and xstar at high densities. These codes are used for a wide range of astrophysical objects including stellar winds, accretion disks, active galactic nuclei and Seyfert galaxies, and calibrating them against high signal-to-noise spectra from comparatively simple systems is essential. AG Dra is the perfect high density laboratory for this work. In addition, many previously undetected emission lines will be found through the high sensitivity of STIS, which will allow new plasma diagnostics to be tested. These twin objectives are particularly pertinent as the high sensitivity of emphHST/COS will will permit similar high resolution spectroscopy to be applied to a whole new regime of extragalactic objects. By combining far-UV data from use with complementary data from STIS, we will determine ratios of emission lines from the same ion, or ions of similar ionization level. These will permit a more complete set of diagnostics than are obtainable from one instrument alone.

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