• 제목/요약/키워드: ISM: tiny structures: Na I Doublet

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DOUBLE STARS AS TRACERS OF TINY STRUCTURES IN THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM

  • MORABBI, SOMAYEH;MIRTORABI, MOHAMMAD TAGHI
    • 천문학논총
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    • 제30권2호
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    • pp.89-91
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    • 2015
  • Observed spectra of stars around the Sun have indicated that the Sun is located in a gas cavity, extending to 100pc. This gas cavity is called the "Local Bubble". The density of the interstellar medium (ISM) in the local bubble is about one tenth that of the average for the ISM in the Milky Way. Furthermore, some structures such as gas planes and strings in the local bubble are probably the result of supernovae. These, due to their low temperatures, can not be observed in the visible and infrared. The only way to do so is to measure the spectra of nearby stars so that the light of stars passing through the local bubble is absorbed by existing gas and the resulting spectral lines from absorption can be measured. In this study, we use binary stars to trace the local bubble structures through lines such as the Na I Doublet. First, we determined the observed spectral lines of stars by HARPS and FEROS echelle spectrographs. Then, we made synthetic spectra with the ATLAS9 code. Finally, the difference between the observational and synthetic spectra confirms the existence of the Na I Doublet in the local ISM.