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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Asymmetries in photospheric lines were described briefly in my earlier contribution to these proceedings and in more detail in the January 15, 1980 issue of the Ap. J. The cores of the stronger lines in α Boo (K2III) show a blue shift, quite opposite to the effect seen in the solar lines. Suspecting this difference to be due to the shift in ionization with effective temperature, two other stars were measured, one slightly hotter than α Boo (β Gem KOIII) and one slightly cooler (β UMi K4IV). The preliminary results seem to confirm the effective temperature dependence since no asymmetries were found for β Gem and stronger blue-shifted core asymmetries were found for β UMi.