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5. Comments on specific lines

The apparent lack or weakness of some Si II lines, (e.g. tex2html_wrap_inline1868 1260.42, 1304.37, 1526.71), while other lines (e.g. tex2html_wrap_inline1836 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 tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1260.42 emission is absorbed also by FeII(9) 1260.53 Å, while the tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1526.71 emission is also affected by a reseaux mark. The tex2html_wrap_inline1836 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 tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1304.37 in the tex2html_wrap_inline1836 04.86 line. Also the tex2html_wrap_inline1836 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 tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1698.6 and tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1727.27 features to SIII] tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1698.79 and tex2html_wrap_inline1836 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., tex2html_wrap_inline1868 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 tex2html_wrap_inline1868 1869.26 and 1872.41 Å. These two lines are present in CH Cyg also and are excited by a fluorescent mechanism involving tex2html_wrap_inline1848. as pointed out by Johansson & Jordan (1985) for late type stars. The line at tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1707.59 is identified as FeII tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1708.24 in ADB; we prefer OV tex2html_wrap_inline1836 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 tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1145.60 line (Table 2) is the feature at the shortest wavelength ever reported in an IUE spectrum.

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tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1189.8 is identified as NI tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1190.0 in ADB and as SIII (1) in Penston (1983), but, because of its large width we prefer Mg VI tex2html_wrap_inline1836 90.03, as in DF.
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tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1198.95 is generally identified as SV tex2html_wrap_inline1836 1199.18 but the sharpness of the profile would suggests, rather, a low ionization species.
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tex2html_wrap_inline1918 1324.24 is generally ident. as Mg V, but the absence of the resonance line at 1293.9 Å casts some doubts on this identification.
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tex2html_wrap_inline1918 1351.34 previously unidentified, is attributed to ClI(2) 51.66, also in CH Cyg;
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tex2html_wrap_inline1918 1367.64 prev. unid. is attributed to CuII(2) 67. 95 (Morton 1991), also in CH Cyg;
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tex2html_wrap_inline1918 1389.58 prev. unid. is attributed to ClI(1) 89.90, also in CH Cyg;
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tex2html_wrap_inline1918 1413.30 is present in both orders but not included in the lists of ADB and DF. We attribute it to FeII (68) 13.71;
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tex2html_wrap_inline1918 1513.99 prev. unid. is probably FeII 14.11 + 14.37, also in CH Cyg;
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tex2html_wrap_inline1918 1619.35 a rather wide feature, is attributed to NV 19.74 recombination line (Williams 1995). A possible contribution by CV tex2html_wrap_inline19181619.80 seems unlikely because of the very high excitation (380 eV) of this transition;
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tex2html_wrap_inline1918 1882.28 absent in Penston (1983), not listed in ADB, unid. in DF; we attribute it to SiIII] 1882.65, the low-density companion to the SiIII] 1892.03 line. This is supported by the similarity in the two profiles;
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tex2html_wrap_inline1918 1910.29,  previously unidentified,   is attributed to FeII (124) 10.67, also in CH Cyg.


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