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Superbroad Component in Emission Lines of SS 433
We have detected new components in stationary emission lines of SS 433; these
are the superbroad components that are low-contrast substrates with a width of
2000--2500 km s-1 in He I and H and 4000--5000 km s-1 in
He II . Based on 44 spectra taken during four years of
observations from 2003 to 2007, we have found that these components in the He
II and He I lines are eclipsed by the donor star; their behavior with
precessional and orbital phases is regular and similar to the behavior of the
optical brightness of SS 433. The same component in H shows neither
eclipses nor precessional variability. We conclude that the superbroad
components in the helium and hydrogen lines are different in origin. Electron
scattering is shown to reproduce well the superbroad component of H at a
gas temperature of 20--35 kK and an optical depth for Thomson scattering 0.25--0.35. The superbroad components of the helium lines are probably
formed in the wind from the supercritical accretion disk. We have computed a
wind model based on the concept of Shakura-Sunyaev supercritical disk
accretion. The main patterns of the He II line profiles are well reproduced in
this model: not only the appearance of the superbroad component but also the
evolution of the central two-component part of the profile of this line during
its eclipse by the donor star can be explained.Comment: 17 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables, published in Astronomy Letters, 2013,
vol. 39, N 12, pp. 826 - 84
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