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Caption: Fig. 6.
Densities (left) and ionization fraction (right) of C IV in our calculation of a standard SV93 model for the inner 50﹩R_{\mathrm{WD}\,}﹩ portion of the wind. The disk lies along the x‐axis. For the densities, the contours correspond to values of ﹩\mathrm{log}\,[ N( \mathrm{C}\,\ {}^{{\rm{\small IV}}}) \ \mathrm{cm}\,^{-3}] ﹩ of 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9. As one might expect, the highest C IV densities occur relatively close to disk, where the wind is moving relatively slowly. For the ionization fraction, the contours represent concentrations of 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, and 90%. The ionization concentration is high over a relatively extended region, peaking at about 30 WD radii from the center of the system. On the edge of the wind closest to the z‐axis, the dominant ionization stage is C V, while close to the disk plane, C III tends to predominate.
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