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Previously unrecognized weak emission lines originating from high excitation states of Si II (12.84 eV) and Al II (13.08 eV) are detected in the red region spectra of slowly rotating early B-type stars. We surveyed high resolution spectra of 35 B-type stars covering spectral sub-types between B1 and B7 near the main sequence and found the emission line of SiII at 6239.6 A in all 13 stars having spectral sub-types B2 and B2.5. There are 17 stars belonging to sub-type B3 and seven stars among them are found to show the emission line of Si II. The emission line of Al II at 6243.4 A is detected in a narrower temperature range (Teff between 19000K and 23000 K) in nine stars. Both of these emission lines are not detected in cooler (Teff < 16000 K) stars in our sample. The emission line of Si II at 6239.6 A shows a single-peaked and symmetric profile and the line center has no shift in wavelength with respect to those of low excitation absorption lines of Si II. Measured half width of the emission line is the same as those of rotationally broadened low excitation absorption lines of Si II. These observations imply that the emitting gas is not circumstellar origin, but is located at the outermost layer of the atmosphere, covering the whole stellar surface and co-rotates with the star.
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