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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
The morphology and variability of spectral lines in the P Cygni high-resolution and high signal-to-noise near-UV spectra have been studied in detail over a period of few days. It is found that several Balmer lines have profiles with a complicated structure. All those lines which are well developed, but still not saturated, show two absorption components. A striking profile variability is discovered on a time-scale of from 1 to 3 days. The most dominant part of rapid variations is the drift of absorption components. It appears that there are two different kinds of components: long lived (with a characteristic time-scale of 200 days) and short-lived (time-scale of few days). The DAC phenomenon in the P Cygni stellar wind is a problems that still remains unsolved.