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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 719, Issue 2, Pages 1932-1945Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/719/2/1932
Keywords
accretion, accretion disks; binaries: close; novae, cataclysmic variables; radiative transfer; stars: individual (RW Tri, UX UMa); stars: winds, outflows
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- Space Telescope Science Institute [HST-AR-10674.01-A]
- NASA [NAS5-26555]
- STFC [ST/G003084/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/G003084/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The UV spectra of nova-like variables are dominated by emission from the accretion disk, modified by scattering in a wind emanating from the disk. Here, we model the spectra of RW Tri and UX UMa, the only two eclipsing nova-like variables which have been observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the far-ultraviolet, in an attempt to constrain the geometry and the ionization structure of their winds. Using our Monte Carlo radiative transfer code, we computed spectra for simply parameterized axisymmetric biconical outflow models and were able to find plausible models for both systems. These reproduce the primary UV resonance lines-N V, Si IV, and C IV-in the observed spectra in and out of eclipse. The distribution of these ions in the wind models is similar in both cases as is the extent of the primary scattering regions in which these lines are formed. The inferred mass-loss rates are 6%-8% of the mass accretion rates for the systems. We discuss the implication of our point models for our understanding of accretion disk winds in cataclysmic variables.
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