Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-10-13
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 339 (2003) 148
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, MN LaTeX style (including 6 Tables) + 5 PostScript figures. To appear in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomica
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06160.x
We analyse the optical spectra and the UV spectral evolution of the jets and of the HII region inside the R Aquarii binary system by the code SUMA which consistently accounts for shock and photoionization. The temperature of the hot star results 80,000 K as for a white dwarf. We find that the shock velocity in the NE jet increased between 1983 and 1989. The spectral evolution between 1989 and 1991 of the SW jet indicates that a larger contribution from low density-velocity matter affects the 1991 spectra. The evolution of the UV spectra from 8/11/1980 to 26/5/1991 in the HII region indicates that the reverse shock is actually a standing shock. The results obtained by modelling the line spectra are cross-checked by the fit of the continuum SED. It is found that a black-body temperature of 2800 K reproduces the radiation from the red giant. A black-body emission component corresponding to 1000 K is emitted by dust in the surrounding of the red giant. Model calculations confirm that the radio emission is of thermal origin. We found that the NE jet bulk emission is at a distance of about 2 (15) cm from the internal system, while the distance of the SW jet bulk is about 6 (14) cm. The distance of the reverse shock from the hot source in the internal region is < 9 (13) cm.
Contini Marcella
Formiggini Liliana
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