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K巨星大角星:红外光谱的混合性质

The K giant star Arcturus: the hybrid nature of its infrared spectrum

T. Tsuji

摘要:

本文利用Hinkle等人的红外光谱图,对大角星的红外光谱进行了研究,以阐明大角星大气中冷组分的性质。(1995年)。CO谱线的性质在logW/nu =-4.75处发生突变,超过这个极限的谱线不能再用经典的谱线形成理论分析。这一事实的一个更简单的表现是,CO线的增长曲线(CG)在logW/nu =-4.75处显示出不可预测的上升。经验CG的类似不寻常行为在其他红(超)巨星中得到证实,看起来CG是至少两种不同起源的成分的混合体。虽然在大角星观测到的CO基本面强线显示加强与预测的光球光谱相比,较弱的线显示略有减弱,我们解释这些结果是由于吸收/发射的分子云形成的扩展大气。恒星大气层中存在云吗?仅仅通过光谱观测来回答这个问题绝非易事,但通过分析大角星的CO谱线,我们发现了几个支持这种可能性的论据。在较冷的(超)巨星中,CO线表现出与大角星类似的不寻常行为,外层大气中分子云的存在是通过空间干涉测量的直接观测证明的。我们认为,分子云的形成是一个普遍的特点,在冷发光的恒星从早期K到晚M(超)巨星。

英文摘要:

We study infrared spectrum of Arcturus to clarify the nature of the cool component of its atmosphere, referred to as the CO-mosphere, with the use of the IR spectral atlas by Hinkle et al.(1995). The nature of CO lines shows an abrupt change at logW/nu = -4.75, and the lines stronger than this limit can no longer be analyzed by the classical line-formation theory. A more simple manifestation of this fact is that the curves-of-growth (CG) of CO lines show an unpredictable upturn at logW/nu = -4.75. Similar unusual behaviors of empirical CG are confirmed in other red (super)giant stars, and it looks as if the CG is a hybrid of at least two components of different origins. Although strong lines of the CO fundamentals observed in Arcturus show strengthening compared with the predicted photospheric spectrum, the weaker lines show slight weakening, and we interpret these results as due to absorption/emission by the molecular clouds formed in the extended atmosphere. Now do clouds exist in stellar atmospheres? It is by no means easy to answer this question by spectroscopic observations alone, but we find several arguments in favor of such a possibility in Arcturus by analyzing the CO lines. In cooler (super)giant stars in which CO lines show similar unusual behaviors as in Arcturus, the presence of molecular clouds in the outer atmospheres was demonstrated by direct observations with spatial interferometry. We suggest that the formation of molecular clouds is a general feature in cool luminous stars from early K to late M (super)giant stars.

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