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It is shown that the observed variety in macrostructures of continuous spectra in the ultraviolet (2000–3000 Å) of hot stars is a result of the presence of circumstellar clouds around such stars. A method for calculations of synthetic spectra, originating as a result of passage of central star photospheric radiation through its own circumstellar cloud, is developed. It introduces a new idea of spectral class for circumstellar cloud, and a recommended method for its determination depending from the spectral class of central star and cloud's parameters (Figure 2). The results of calculations of synthetic spectra for the four combinations of system ‘star+cloud’ are presented (Figures 7-10). The strongest influence of circumstellar cloud in ultraviolet is discovered on A-class stars (Figure 13). Graphic relations are introduced for determination of cloud power by observed parameters of synthetic spectra (Figures 14 and 15).
It establishes an important fact for an understanding of the nature of circumstellar clouds and processes occurring in them, according to which the selective absorption in such clouds stimulatesresonance lines only, the largest number of which lies in the ultraviolet in the region of 2100–2600 Å (Figure 1). An absence of visible signs of the effect of circumstellar clouds on continuous spectra of stars in visual region can be explained by a very small number of resonance lines in this region.
Lastly, the possibility of determination of physical and geometric parameters of circumstellar clouds from stellar continuous spectra in the ultraviolet is analysed.
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Gurzadyan, G.A., Rustambekova, S.S. Circumstellar clouds derived from ultraviolet stellar spectra. Astrophys Space Sci 69, 295–318 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00661919
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