Computer Science
Scientific paper
Aug 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980natur.286..580c&link_type=abstract
Nature, vol. 286, Aug. 7, 1980, p. 580-582.
Computer Science
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B Stars, Eclipsing Binary Stars, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Radiation, Supergiant Stars, Ultraviolet Spectra, Absorption Spectra, Cold Plasmas, Emission Spectra, Iue, K Stars, Line Spectra, Stellar Spectra, Stellar Winds
Scientific paper
IUE observations of the eclipsing binary system Zeta Aurigae made prior to and during the eclipse of the relatively small B8 V star by the cool supergiant star (spectral type K2 II) are reported. Spectral lines produced by the absorption of B star radiation in the atmosphere of the K star during eclipse can be used as a probe of the extended K star atmosphere, due to the negligible cool star continuum in the 1200-3200 A region. Spectra taken prior to eclipse are found to be similar to those of the single B8 V star 64 Ori, with the exception of very strong multi-component absorption lines of Si II, Si IV, C IV and the Mg resonance doublet with strong P Cygni profiles, indicating a double shell. Absorption lines including those corresponding to Al II, Al III, Cr II, Mn II, Fe II, Ni II and Ca II are observed to increase in strength and number as the eclipse progresses, with high-ionization-potential lines formed far from the K star, possibly in a shock wave, and low-ionization potential lines, formed in cool plasma, probably a cool wind, nearer to the K star. Finally, an emission-line spectra with lines corresponding to those previously observed in absorption is noted at the time the B-star continuum had disappeared.
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