Symbiotic recurrent nova RS Oph in ourburst !!!

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Robin Leadbeater
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Re: Symbiotic recurrent nova RS Oph in ourburst !!!

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Francois Teyssier wrote:Day 16 after max.

An important milestone in the development of the spectrum: the appearence of high ionized lines in the ejecta.

NIII and He II
These three spectra nicely define the exact date when the 4682 line emerges

Cheers
Robin
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Re: Symbiotic recurrent nova RS Oph in ourburst !!!

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Another RS Oph - taken last night.

I have marked the features that Francois has highlighted as well as [OIII] noted in Steve Shore's recent ATel.

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Re: Symbiotic recurrent nova RS Oph in ourburst !!!

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Robin Leadbeater wrote:
Francois Teyssier wrote:Day 16 after max.

An important milestone in the development of the spectrum: the appearence of high ionized lines in the ejecta.

NIII and He II
These three spectra nicely define the exact date when the 4682 line emerges

Cheers
Robin
not sure if my spectrum does show the bump at 4685 on 2021-08-24.5 (perhaps wavelength calibration needs fixing?) or it could be noise.
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Re: Symbiotic recurrent nova RS Oph in ourburst !!!

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Two ATel describe the emergence of high ionized lines (He II, [Fe VI], [Fe VII], [Ar III]

Continuing ARAS Group spectroscopic monitoring of RS Oph: appearance of high ionization lines
ATel #14881; S. N. Shore (Univ. of Pisa), F. Teyssier, O. Thizy (ARAS Group)
on 28 Aug 2021; 12:30 UT

This is an update on the continuing spectroscopic monitoring of RS Oph by the ARAS group medium resolution (resolution above 9000, covering around 3900 to 8900A). Here we report only recent results from the echelle spectra. A large number of lower resolution, from about 200 to 1500, are also being accumulated (ATel#14868 and cited previous). The details of instruments and telescope apertures are provided on the website (https://aras-database.github.io/database/rsoph.html). For comparison, see https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008A ... E/abstract for an overview of the 2006 outburst. All absorption has now vanished around Aug 25.0 from the Balmer profiles, the narrow wind P Cyg absorption at -36 km/s now shows weak, narrow emission on Halpha. The Halpha profile also shows a weak, extended wing to \vrad| ~ 3000 km/s with the maximum |vrad| ~ 2000 km/s at about twice the continuum level.; the line profile is steeper on the blue side. He II 4686, 5411 are both present, HWZI ~ 1000 km/s and symmetric profiles. This contrasts with the He I profiles, especially 6678, that show an emission peak at +230 km/s; this is also present on the Balmer lines, O I 7774, 8446, and is different from the [N II] 5755 peak (-37 km/s). This peak is not present on either optical He II profile or N III 4636A, which is now stronger than He II 4686. [Fe VI] 5276 shows a narrow feature, like [N II] and at -44 km/s, as does [Fe VII] 6087; the latter also appears to show a broader feature with maximum |vrad| ~ 640 km/s (HWZI) . The narrow component may have been present as early as Aug. 17. [Fe VII] 5720 may also show a weak narrow component after Aug. 25. If due to photoionization, it indicates flux at or above about 0.1 KeV so there may already be a strong soft source that is simply too absorbed by the still mainly neutral wind to be directly detectable. [Fe VI] 5276 may also have been present earlier but was more likely Fe II 5275. [Ar III] 7135 is likely present as a very weak, similarly narrow feature as early as Aug. 17.


And a short fading of He II wich almost desappared during one day.
This behavior of He II was totally unforseen (and not detected during former outburst) and very strange in the current.
This fading was so surprising/understadable that we use low resolution in order to verify.
It has been established thanks to high cadency, daily monitoring of the 2021 outburst.
A great moment!


ARAS Group monitoring of RS Oph 2021: Rapid profile variations of He II detected
ATel #14883; S. N. Shore (Univ. of Pisa), F. Teyssier, J. Guarro, H. Allen, V. Lecocq, K. Shank, P. Velez (ARAS Group)
on 29 Aug 2021; 00:36 UT


In the last two days the He II 4686,5411A lines have dramatically altered in both strength and profile, detected with optical grating and echelle spectra (observers and nstruments are available at the ARAS Database website). As reported in ATel#14881, on Aug. 25.8 both lines were present with roughly symmetric profiles and |vrad,max| ~ -1100 km/s. On Aug. 26.8 the profiles were similar but about 1/2 the previous normalized flux. The profile now, Aug. 28.8, has < 1/10 the relative intensity and virtually no emission associated with the component centered at +270 km/s (+10 < vrad < 1300 km/s). Notably, the fine structure peaks on all He I profiles at around -240 km/s and -20 km/s are also present on He II and its blue wing extends to vrad ~ -1200 km/s, like He I (the wing of Hbeta extends to -2200 km/s). In this same time period, the O I 7772 A component shows emission confined to the same velocity interval as the He II emission deficit, although O I 8446 A shows a similar profile to the other permitted lines, including e.g., Fe II 5018, 5169 A. Although weakened in relative flux, N III 4636 has otherwise not changed from our previous observations. The only significant structural change is in the ionized He profiles. We urge continued, high cadence spectroscopic monitoring; all spectra described here are available through the ARAS database.


The evolution of He II from echelle spectra secured by Joan Guarro and François Teyssier
Rise, fading (red) and recovery (blue)
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The same in wl space with also the variations of NII 4640 which follows He II, to a lesser degree
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Let's go on the good job

François
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Re: Symbiotic recurrent nova RS Oph in ourburst !!!

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Hello all,

Congratulations to all the observers for these very great results on RS Oph !!

Here is my comparison between my last spectrum of the Halpha line of RS Oph at high resolution on August 27 at 20 h 54 TU (resolution of 18249, JJ = 2459454.3706, acquisition time of 60 min (6 x 600s)) obtained with my LHIRES III (grating of 2400 lines / mm) and the previous ones.
Halpha line of RS Oph on August 11th, 12th, 19th, 20th, 24th, 25th and 27th 2021
Halpha line of RS Oph on August 11th, 12th, 19th, 20th, 24th, 25th and 27th 2021
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Clear skies to all !!

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A beautiful example of what can be achieved with high quality equipment and very compliant weather!
David

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Here’s an article about the last RS Oph spectra campaign and the amateurs spectra taken during this campaign :
https://www.shelyak.com/rs-oph-la-contr ... k/?lang=en

(Version Française ici : https://www.shelyak.com/rs-oph-la-contr ... s-shelyak/ )
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Hello,

That are some changes on RS Oph graphics on 4 days.

Regards, J. Guarro.
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Re: Symbiotic recurrent nova RS Oph in ourburst !!!

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Hello all,

Thank you David for this very interesting article !

Here is my new comparison between my two last spectra of the Halpha line of RS Oph at high resolution on August 31 at 20 h 42 TU (resolution of 19094, JJ = 2459458.3626, acquisition time of 50 min (5 x 600s)) and on September 2 at 20 h 56 TU (resolution of 19069, JJ = 2459460.3721, acquisition time of 30 min (3 x 600s)) obtained with my LHIRES III (grating of 2400 lines / mm) and the previous ones.
Halpha line of RS Oph on August 11th, 12th, 19th, 20th, 24th, 25th, 27th, 31th and on September 2nd 2021
Halpha line of RS Oph on August 11th, 12th, 19th, 20th, 24th, 25th, 27th, 31th and on September 2nd 2021
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Re: Symbiotic recurrent nova RS Oph in ourburst !!!

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follow up from my question about effect of spin on the nova outburst, and Steve Shore's response that the possible effect of spin-reduced gravity at the equator on ignition location is being researched.

It reminded me of an image of SN1978A, which show the ejecta as rings.

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if ignition happens ab both poles at the same time, and propagates down towards the equator, then when the ignition fronts collide they might produce these rings.
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