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2018MNRAS.481..793M - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 481, 793-805 (2018/November-3)

A newly identified emission-line region around P Cygni.

MIZUMOTO M., KOBAYASHI N., HAMANO S., IKEDA Y., KONDO S., SAMESHIMA H., MATSUNAGA N., FUKUE K., YASUI C., IZUMI N., KAWAKITA H., NAKANISHI K., NAKAOKA T., OTSUBO S. and MAEHARA H.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a high-resolution (R ≃ 20 000) near-infrared (9100-13 500Å) long-slit spectrum of P Cygni obtained with the newly commissioned WINERED spectrograph in Japan. In the obtained spectrum, we have found that the velocity profiles of the [Fe II] emission lines are resolved into two peaks at a velocity of ≃220 km s–1 with a moderate dip in between and with additional sub-peaks at ≃±100 km s–1. The sub-peak component is confirmed with the long-slit echellogram to originate in the known shell with a radius of ≃10 arcsec, which was originally created by the outburst in 1600 AD. On the other hand, the ≃220 km s–1 component, which dominates the [Fe II] flux from P Cygni, is found to be concentrated closer to the central star with an apparent spatial extent of ≃3 arcsec. The extent is much larger than the compact (<0.1 arcsec) regions traced with hydrogen, helium, and metal permitted lines. The velocity, estimated mass, and dynamical time of the extended emission-line region suggest that the region is an outer part of the stellar wind region. We suggest that the newly identified emission-line region may trace a reverse shock due to the stellar wind overtaking the outburst shell.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): stars: individual: (P Cygni) - stars: mass-loss - stars: winds, outflows

Simbad objects: 5

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