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Jul 1999
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HST Proposal ID #8237
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Hst Proposal Id #8237 Interstellar And Intergalactic Matter
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Using the long-slit spectroscopy capabilities of STIS, we propose to try to detect for the first time nebular Lyman- Alpha emission surrounding a Sun-like star produced by the interaction of its stellar wind with the ISM. Such ``hydrogen walls'' have likely been detected in absorption around the Sun and several other nearby stars using GHRS Lyman-Alpha spectra. However, most of these detections are tentative due to the difficulty in separating the H-wall absorption from the interstellar H I absorption. Furthermore, even if one accepts the reality of the detected hot H I absorption components, it is impossible to prove that circumstellar material is in fact responsible. We propose to circumvent these difficulties by detecting a hydrogen wall in emission around 40 Eri A, which is one of the stars for which a tentative H-wall detection already exists. A successful detection of the expected circumstellar emission would validate the previous Lyman-Alpha aborption line studies, a nd the combined spectroscopic and spatial information provided by long-slit spectroscopy would contribute valuable new information on the stellar wind of 40 Eri A and how it interacts with the ISM, especially when compared with models that we will construct of 40 Eri A's ``astrosphere.'' This new information includes a direct measurement of the distance to the stellar bow shock, information that we do not possess for any other nearby star, including the Sun.
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