Early Spectroscopy of the 2010 Outburst of U Scorpii
| Autor: | Kazuyoshi Imamura, Mikiha Nose, Masayuki Yamanaka, Osamu Nagae, Ryosuke Itoh, Kenji Tanabe, Tatsuya Harao, T. Komatsu, T. Okushima, Mitsugu Fujii, K. Sakimoto, Nanae Kunitomi, Koji S. Kawabata, Makoto Uemura, Michitoshi Yoshida, Akira Arai, Takashi Ohsugi, Mahito Sasada |
|---|---|
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: | |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| Popis: | We present early spectroscopy of the recurrent nova U~Sco during the outburst in 2010. We successfully obtained time-series spectra at $t_{\rm d}=$0.37--0.44~d, where $t_{\rm d}$ denotes the time from the discovery of the present outburst. This is the first time-resolved spectroscopy on the first night of U Sco outbursts. At $t_{\rm d}\sim 0.4$~d the H$\alpha$ line consists of a blue-shifted ($-5000$ km s$^{-1}$) narrow absorption component and a wide emission component having triple peaks, a blue ($\sim -3000$ km s$^{-1}$), a central ($\sim 0$ km s$^{-1}$) and a red ($\sim +3000$ km s$^{-1}$) ones. The blue and red peaks developed more rapidly than the central one during the first night. This rapid variation would be caused by the growth of aspherical wind produced during the earliest stage of the outburst. At $t_{\rm d}=1.4$~d the H$\alpha$ line has a nearly flat-topped profile with weak blue and red peaks at $\sim \pm 3000$ km s$^{-1}$. This profile can be attributed to a nearly spherical shell, while the asphericity growing on the first night still remains. The wind asphericity is less significant after $t_{\rm d}=9$ d. Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication of PASJ Letters |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|