QQ Vir at Shanghai
Time-resolved high-resolution spectroscopy
of the pulsating sdB star   QQ Vir (PG1325+101)

John Telting et al.,   Shanghai,   July 2009
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Cross-correlation functions

  We identified 12 narrow unblended N III lines, and used their line wavelengths to create a template spectrum consisting of deltafunctions convolved with the instrumental broadening (3km/s Gaussian σ).

  For each phase bin we computed the cross-correlation function of the stellar spectrum and the template spectrum. This effectively combines the information contained in 12 separate spectral lines into one CCF profile.

  The resulting CCF profiles have improved S/N, and can be used as if they were real line profiles in the mode identification.