Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-11-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
23 pages (with 3 tables); 12 postscript figures (figs. 6-9,11 are low resolution versions); accepted for publication in MNRAS;
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01321.x
We present 14 nights of medium resolution (1-2\AA) spectroscopy of the eclipsing cataclysmic variable UU Aquarii obtained during a high accretion state in 1995 August-October. UU Aqr appears to be an SW Sextantis star, as noted by Baptista, Steiner, & Horne (1996), and we discuss its spectroscopic behavior in the context of the SW Sex phenomenon. Emission line equivalent width curves, Doppler tomography, and line profile simulation provide evidence for the presence of a bright spot at the impact site of the accretion stream with the edge of the disk, and a non-axisymmetric, vertically- and azimuthally-extended absorbing structure in the disk. The absorption has maximum depth in the emission lines around orbital phase 0.8, but is present from $\phi\approx0.4$ to $\phi\approx0.95$. An origin is explored for this absorbing structure (as well as the other spectroscopic behavior of UU Aqr) in terms of the explosive impact of the accretion stream with the disk.
Buckley David A. H.
Connon Smith Robert
Hoard Donald Wayne
Still Martin D.
Szkody Paula
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