Bibcode
Huélamo, N.; Franqueira, M.; Gómez de Castro, A. I.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 312, Issue 4, pp. 833-842.
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2000
Citations
5
Refereed citations
5
Description
The far-UV spectrum of the T Tauri stars (TTSs) provides important clues
about the structure of the stellar atmospheres, winds and accretion
shocks. The IUE (International Ultraviolet Explorer) Final Archive
contains the most complete data base for such studies. A new extraction
system, the IUE Newly Extracted Spectra (ines), has been developed to
overcome the disadvantages of the extraction system used in the IUE
Final Archive, the Signal Weighted Extraction Technique (swet). We have
compared the ines spectra of the whole sample of TTSs in the far-UV
range (1200-2000Å) with the swet low-resolution spectra available
in the IUE Final Archive. Although in most of the cases there is a good
agreement between both samples, an important enhancement of the ines
line fluxes with respect to the swet line fluxes is reported for
particular spectra. The line fluxes are enhanced by as much as a factor
of ~2.5 in some objects, which is significant for variability studies of
TTSs because the variations of the UV lines are typically of this order.
The emission-measure distributions built to study the atmospheres of
these stars are based on the UV emission line fluxes, so the new system
is susceptible to introduce changes in these models. Moreover, the
non-linear enhancement of the ines line fluxes produces variations in
diagnostic line ratios usually taken as temperature and density tracers
in late-type stars. These line ratios can vary by as much as a factor of
3 when the ines data are compared with the swet, with the subsequent
variation of the physical parameters derived from them.