THE IUE-SPECTRUM OF THE BINARY NUCLEUS OF THE PLANETARY-NEBULA NGC-1514

Archival IUE low-dispersion spectra and the first ultraviolet high-dis persion spectrum of the binary nucleus of NGC 1514 have been analyzed. Both SWP and LWR low-dispersion spectra show variability by as much a s a factor of two in the continuum level between the years 1978 and 19 89. Weak P Cygni features for O V lambda 1371 and C IV lambda 1549 yie ld terminal wind velocities of - 105 +/- 25 and - 960 +/- 150 km s(-1) , respectively. No nebular emission lines were detected, but several p hotospheric and interstellar absorption features were observed. Absorp tion lines of Fe VII are suspected. The He II lambda 1640 absorption l ine has a radial velocity of + 49 +/- 3 km s(-1) and is in good agreem ent with optical data. The peculiar energy distribution of the SWP con tinuum for NGC 1514 can be synthesized by the coaddition of spectral-t ype A0-A3 III plus hot subdwarf lUE spectra.