Line profile variability in the spectra of Oef stars

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Issue		A&A Volume 427, Number 3, December I 2004


Page(s)		995 - 1008
Section		Stellar atmospheres
DOI		http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20040548

A&A 427, 995-1008 (2004)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20040548

II. HD 192281, HD 14442 and HD 14434

M. De Becker and G. Rauw

Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, 17, Allée du 6 Août, Bât. B5c, 4000 Sart Tilman, Belgium
e-mail: debecker@astro.ulg.ac.be

(Received 29 March 2004 / Accepted 6 August 2004)

Abstract
We present the very first analysis of the spectroscopic variability of the three rapidly rotating Oef stars HD 192281 (O5(ef)), HD 14442 (O5.5ef) and HD 14434 (O6.5(ef)). Radial velocities of the $\ion{He}{ii}$ $\lambda$ 4541 line reveal no evidence of binarity on time scales of a few days, or from one year to the next, for any of the targets. The $\ion{He}{ii}$ $\lambda$ 4686 double-peaked emission and, to some extent, the H $\beta$ absorption line display significant profile variability in the spectra of all three stars. Data gathered during different observing runs spread over six years reveal a rather stable time scale for HD 192281 and HD 14442, whereas the variability pattern changes significantly from one year to the other. The case of HD 14434 is less clear as no obvious time scale emerges from our analysis. In a tentative way to interpret this variability, stellar rotation remains a possible clock for HD 192281 and HD 14442. However, currently available models addressing stellar rotation fail to explain some crucial aspects of the observed variability behaviour, which appear to be even more complex in the case of HD 14434.

Key words: stars: early-type -- stars: individual: HD 192281 -- stars: individual: HD 14442 -- stars: individual: HD 14434 -- stars: variables: general -- stars: winds, outflows

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