Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-05-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
3 pages of text and 3 JPG figures. To be included in the FUSE ApJ Letters special issue
Scientific paper
10.1086/312788
We present Far Ultraviolet Explorer (FUSE) spectra for three Magellanic Cloud O stars (Sk 80, Sk -67 05 and Sk -67 111) with repeated observations. The data demonstrate the capabilities of FUSE to perform time-resolved spectroscopy on extragalactic stars. The wavelength coverage of FUSE provides access to resonance lines due to less abundant species, such as sulfur, which are unsaturated in O supergiants. This allows us to examine wind variability at all velocities in resonance lines for stars with higher mass loss rates than can be studied at longer (lambda > 1150 A) wavelengths. The FUSE wavelength range also includes resonance lines from ions which bracket the expected dominant ionization stage of the wind. Our observations span 1-4 months with several densely sampled intervals of 10 hours or more. These observations reveal wind variability in all of the program stars and distinctive differences in the ionization structure and time scales of the variability. Sk -67 111 demonstrates significant wind variability on a time scale less than 10 hours and the coolest O star (Sk -67 05) exhibits the largest variations in O VI.
Bianchi Luciana
Brownsberger Kenneth Robert
Crowther Paul A.
Fullerton Alex W.
Hutchings John B.
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