Hallo Roland,
hier die Stellungnahme von Anatoly bezogen auf meine Frage zur Profilfittung in delta Sco.
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Von: "Anatoly Miroshnichenko A_MIROSH" <
A_MIROSH@uncg.edu>
An: <
ernst-pollmann@t-online.de>
Betreff: Re: Question
Datum: 13. Jul 2008 23:12
Dear Ernst,
Let me now answer your qestions about determining the lines' radial velocity. As you see in the spectra of Delta Sco, the line profiles are typically asymmetric. Moreover, different parts of the profile are formed in different parts of the envelope and by different processes. In binary systems the mean radial velocity of a spectral emission line reflects the motion of the companion, arond which this line is formed. However, the line wings are usually due to electron scattering and are not used for the radial velocity measurements. A similar consideration is applied to the top of the profile. It is not formed by electron scattering, but can be affected by sch processes, as matter ejection in the line of sight, not in the disk plane.
As a result, it is usually assumed that the best part of the profile to use for radial velocity determination lays between the wings and t he top. Typically, people look for symmetric parts of the profile and use them. What they do is that they plot a profile in the same graph with the same profile, inverted in the wavelength space. An inverted profile simply has the blue wing on the red side and vice versa. Then one moves the inverted profile along the wavelength axis unless it matches the original profile in some intermediate part of intensity. The criterion for the best match is the minimum of the squares of deviations between the positions of the points at the same intensity in the original and inverted profile. The intensity interval needs to be chosen the same for all the used profiles. The minimum and maximum intensity for the fitting is found empirically by comparing the results of the fitting at different intensity levels. I described this method briefly in our paper on Gamma Cas (PASP, 114, 1226, 2002).
Best regards
Dr. Anatoly Miroshnichenko
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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