The apparent lack or weakness of some Si II lines, (e.g.
1260.42, 1304.37, 1526.71),
while other lines (e.g.
1533.44) are present is caused by i.s.
re-absorption
since the lower level of these lines is the zero-volt ground state.
The
1260.42 emission is absorbed also by FeII(9) 1260.53 Å,
while the
1526.71 emission is also affected by a reseaux mark.
The
1309.28 line is present as a weak feature on the violet wing of the
unidentified
feature at 1309.32 Å. The 1808.01 Å zero-volt line is less affected by
re-absorption since its f-factor is small.
Similarly, the OI triplet near 1300 Å is affected by i.s. re-absorption
in the 1302.17 line and by partial absorption by SiII
1304.37 in the
04.86 line.
Also the
1670.81 emission line of Al II is affected by i.s. re-absorption
and by a reseaux mark.
The presence of a few lines of SiI, as reported in ADB, is
questionable; in our opinion it is just by chance coincidence because of the
richness of the SiI spectrum.
We prefer to ascribe the 1698.6 and
1727.27
features to SIII]
1698.79 and
1722 respectively, as in Penston et al. (1983), and
Williams (1995).
We leave as unidentified the rather strong feature observed at
1530.7 Å
that is not included in the lists of Penston (1983) or DF. We recall that
an unidentified emission in the solar limb at 1530.89 Å is reported by
Burton & Rydgeley (1970). We also leave as unidentified the feature at
1565.49 Å.
A few lines identified as Fe II by DF, e.g., 1360.20,
1776.61,
1881.22, 1884.11 are very weak or absent in the FeII-rich spectrum of the
symbiotic star CH Cyg. For this reason we consider these identifications as
doubtful,
although we are aware that different FeII excitation mechanisms in the two
stars could explain this behavior. On the other hand, we have identified as
FeII the two features at
1869.26 and 1872.41 Å.
These two lines are present
in CH Cyg also and are excited by a fluorescent mechanism involving
.
as pointed out by Johansson & Jordan (1985) for late type stars.
The line at
1707.59 is identified as FeII
1708.24 in ADB; we prefer OV
07.95 due to the large FWHM in the observed profile,
thus indicating a high
ionization emitter, and to the better consistency in the wavelengths.
It is worth to point out that, to the best of our knowledge, the newly
found Ne V 1145.60
line (Table 2) is the feature at the shortest wavelength ever reported in
an IUE spectrum.