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http://dx.doi.org/10.5140/JASS.2018.35.1.7

N III Bowen Lines and Fluorescence Mechanism in the Symbiotic Star AG Peg  

Hyung, Siek (Department of Earth Science Education, Chungbuk National University)
Lee, Seong-Jae (Department of Earth Science Education, Chungbuk National University)
Lee, Kang Hwan (Department of Earth Science Education, Chungbuk National University)
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Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences / v.35, no.1, 2018 , pp. 7-18 More about this Journal
Abstract
We have investigated the intensities and full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the high dispersion spectroscopic N III emission lines of AG Peg, observed with the Hamilton Echelle Spectrograph (HES) in three different epochs at Mt. Hamilton's Lick Observatory. The earlier theoretical Bowen line study assumed the continuum fluorescence effect, presenting a large discrepancy with the present data. Hence, we analyzed the observed N III lines assuming line fluorescence as the only suitable source: (1) The O III and N III resonance line profiles near ${\lambda}$ 374 were decomposed, using the Gaussian function, and the contributions from various O III line components were determined. (2) Based on the theoretical resonant N III intensities, the expected N III Bowen intensities were obtained to fit the observed values. Our study shows that the incoming line photon number ratio must be considered to balance at each N III Bowen line level in the ultraviolet radiation according to the observed lines in the optical zone. We also found that the average FWHM of the N III Bowen lines was about $5km{\cdot}s^{-1}$ greater than that of the O III Bowen lines, perhaps due to the inherently different kinematic characteristics of their emission zones.
Keywords
symbiotic nova AG Peg; line profile; N III Bowen line; spectroscopic observation;
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