High Resolution Optical Spectra of HBC 722

  • Park, Sunkyung (School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Lee, Jeong-Eun (School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Kang, Wonseok (National Youth Space Center) ;
  • Sung, Hyun-Il (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) ;
  • Lee, Sang-Gak (National Youth Space Center) ;
  • Green, Joel D. (Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin) ;
  • Cochran, William D. (Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin)
  • Published : 2014.10.13

Abstract

We present the results of high resolution (R>35,000) optical spectroscopic monitoring observations of a new FU Orionis-like young stellar object, HBC 722. We observed HBC 722 with the Bohyunsan Optical Echelle Spectrograph (BOES) and Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) since November 26, 2010. HBC 722 is the FU Orionis-like object best characterized for the pre-outburst phase, and it provides the first opportunity to profile the burst phase of accretion across all wavelengths. We detected a number of lines such as $H{\alpha}$, $H{\beta}$, Fe II ${\lambda}$ 5018, Mg I ${\lambda}$ 5183, Na I D doublets, and metallic photospheric lines. In this work, we focus on the time variations of those spectral lines to understand the accretion process of HBC 722.

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