Skylab ultraviolet stellar spectra: variation of intensity and structure of strong lines with temperature and luminosity.
Abstract
Objective-prism spectra at ultraviolet wavelengths extending to 1300 A were photographed during the three Skylab missions in a survey covering 9 percent of the sky. Several spectral features, notably resonance lines of C IV and Si IV, show striking variations with stellar temperature and luminosity. Marked P Cygni profiles in C IV and Si IV, indicative of significant outflow of mass, appear in the spectra of all stars with bolometric magnitude brighter than -8.4.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1086/181862
- Bibcode:
- 1975ApJ...199L.119H
- Keywords:
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- Early Stars;
- Skylab Program;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Spectral Line Width;
- Stellar Spectra;
- Ultraviolet Spectra;
- Astronomical Photography;
- Luminous Intensity;
- Stellar Luminosity;
- Stellar Temperature;
- Astrophysics