English

A newly-identified emission-line region around P Cygni

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2018-08-29 v1

Abstract

We present a high-resolution (R20,000R \simeq 20,000) near-infrared (9,100-13,500 A˚\AA) 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\simeq220 km s1^{-1} with a moderate dip in between and with additional sub-peaks at ±100\simeq\pm100~km~s1^{-1}. The sub-peak component is confirmed with the long-slit echellogram to originate in the known shell with a radius of 10\simeq10^{\prime\prime}, which was originally created by the outburst in 1600 AD. On the other hand, the 220\simeq220 km s1^{-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\simeq3^{\prime\prime}. The extent is much larger than the compact (<0.1<0^{\prime\prime}.1) 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.

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@article{arxiv.1808.04622,
  title  = {A newly-identified emission-line region around P Cygni},
  author = {Misaki Mizumoto and Naoto Kobayashi and Satoshi Hamano and Yuji Ikeda and Sohei Kondo and Hiroaki Sameshima and Noriyuki Matsunaga and Kei Fukue and Chikako Yasui and Natsuko Izumi and Hideyo Kawakita and Kenshi Nakanishi and Tetsuya Nakaoka and Shogo Otsubo and Hiroyuki Maehara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.04622},
  year   = {2018}
}

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16 pages, 8 figures, accepted in MNRAS