Ultraviolet observations of four symbiotic stars

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Feb 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982apj...253..735m&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 253, Feb. 15, 1982, p. 735-744.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Binary Stars, Iue, Stellar Envelopes, Stellar Mass Ejection, Stellar Spectra, Ultraviolet Spectra, Early Stars, F Stars, Hot Stars, Spaceborne Astronomy, Spectrum Analysis, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Models

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Observations were obtained with the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) of four symbiotic stars. The UV spectra of YY Her, SY Mus, CL Sco, and BX Mon are characterized by varying degrees of thermal excitation. These low resolution spectra have been analyzed in terms of line-blanketed model atmospheres of early A, B, and F type stars in order to identify the nature of the hot companion in these systems. The expected emission from early main sequence stars does not fully explain the observed distribution of UV continuum energy over the entire IUE spectral range (1200-3200 A). More likely the observed continuum may be originating from an accretion disk and/or hot subdwarf that photoionizes circumstellar material, and gives rise to the high excitation lines that have been detected. The Bowen fluorescent excited lines of O III in SY Mus exhibit slightly broadened profiles that suggest possible turbulent motions in an extended circumstellar cloud with characteristic velocities of approximately 300 km/s.

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