Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004mnras.350..575w&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 350, Issue 2, pp. 575-579.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Stars: Abundances, Stars: Individual: Hd 33793, Stars: Late-Type, Subdwarfs
Scientific paper
We report spectral chemical abundances for 12 elements in Kapteyn's Star (HD 33793), a subdwarf M star. We use stellar temperature and gravity parameters derived using the recent interferometric measurement of its radius. We find [Fe/H]=-1.13 +/- 0.01, [Ti/H]=-0.90 +/- 0.03, and a weighted mean metallicity [M/H]=-0.98 +/- 0.10, where the uncertainties in temperature, gravity and microturbulence are included in the latter. This value falls about mid-way between the metallicity found in the only previous high-resolution analysis, [M/H]=-0.55 +/- 0.15, and the value derived from low-resolution spectra of TiO and CaH features, [M/H]=-1.5 +/- 0.5. It is essentially identical to that found using low-resolution infrared spectra of water lines, [M/H]=-1.0 +/- 0.3. This abundance determination for a nearby subdwarf M star using well-determined stellar parameters and a spectrum with a high signal-to-noise ratio will provide an anchor point for abundance studies of similar stars where the situation is not so favourable.
Wallerstein George
Woolf Vincent M.
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