Abstract
AbstractWe have obtained ultraviolet spectra of the Herbig Ae star HD104237 using the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) on HST. The high temperature emission and absorption lines show remarkable outflow absorption features, which have very similar profiles that are essentially independent of formation temperature. The profiles are not those expected from a spherically-symmetric stellar wind but have optically-thick absorption to −280 km s−1 and a high velocity plateau extending to −375 km s−1. The profile shape is a manifestation of the nonspherical geometry of the flow. The observed UV emission is too strong to be associated with the hot X–ray emitting plasma seen by ASCA and probably is generated by the interaction of the innermost part of an accretion disk with the corotating outermost magnetospheric field. The outflow is almost certainly the inner part of a biconical disk wind.
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