Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21340808r&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #408.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.206
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Measurements of the asymmetry of the emission peaks in the core of the Ca II H line for 105 giant stars are reported. The asymmetry is quantified with the parameter V/R, which is the ratio between the maximum number of counts in the blueward peak and the redward peak. The H and K lines probe the motion of certain chromospheric layers in the stellar atmosphere. Ca II K line V/R data are drawn from previous Smith & Shetrone papers and compared to the Ca II H line V/R data. It is found that the Ca II H line V/R ratio is +0.0387 larger than the K line ratio. The differences between the H and K line V/R parameters are also correlated with B-V color. Stars cooler than B-V = 1.2 are more likely to have H-K > 0 than H-K < 0, whereas the opposite is true for stars hotter than B-V = 1.2. We conclude that the discrepancies between the Ca II H and K line V/R values could be caused by the layers of chromospheric material that produce the double-peaked emission features simultaneously moving in opposite directions.
Ryon Jenna
Shetrone Matthew
Smith Gordon
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