Far-UV spectral atlas of O-type stars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Smith M.A.
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    CDS
Abstract

In this paper, we present a spectral atlas covering the wavelength interval 930-1188{AA} for O2-O9.5 stars using Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer archival data. The stars selected for the atlas were drawn from three populations: Galactic main-sequence (classes III-V) stars, supergiants, and main-sequence stars in the Magellanic Clouds, which have low metallicities. For several of these stars, we have prepared FITS files comprised of pairs of merged spectra for user access via the Multimission Archive at Space Telescope (MAST). We chose spectra from the first population with spectral types O4, O5, O6, O7, O8, and O9.5 and used them to compile tables and figures with identifications of all possible atmospheric and interstellar medium lines in the region 949-1188{AA}. Our identified line totals for these six representative spectra are 821 (500), 992 (663), 1077 (749), 1178 (847), 1359 (1001), and 1798 (1392) lines, respectively, where the numbers in parentheses are the totals of lines formed in the atmospheres, according to spectral synthesis models. The total number of unique atmospheric identifications for the six main-sequence O-star template spectra is 1792, whereas the number of atmospheric lines in common to these spectra is 300. The number of identified lines decreases toward earlier types (increasing effective temperature), while the percentages of "missed" features (unknown lines not predicted from our spectral syntheses) drop from a high of 8% at type B0.2, from our recently published B-star far-UV atlas (Cat. J/ApJS/186/175), to 1%-3% for type O spectra. The percentages of overpredicted lines are similar, despite their being much higher for B-star spectra.

Keywords
  1. star-atlases
  2. spectroscopy
  3. ultraviolet-astronomy
  4. o-stars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2012ApJS..202...17S
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/202/17
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/202/17
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22020017

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History

2012-11-21T08:39:54Z
Resource record created
2012-11-21T08:39:54Z
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2017-07-04T07:08:07Z
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