First results from the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph - Evidence for photospheric microturbulence in early O stars - Are surface gravities systematically underestimated?

Details First results from the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph - Evidence for photospheric microturbulence in early O stars - Are surface gravities systematically underestimated? First results from the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph - Evidence for photospheric microturbulence in early O stars - Are surface gravities systematically underestimated?

Aug 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991apj...377l..33h&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 377, Aug. 10, 1991, p. L33-L36.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Early Stars, O Stars, Spectrographs, Stellar Gravitation, Stellar Spectra, Turbulence, Ultraviolet Spectra, High Resolution, Hubble Space Telescope, Photosphere, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Winds, Subdwarf Stars

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GHRS spectra of two very hot stars provide evidence for the presence of microturbulence in their photospheres. In attempting to reproduce the observed spectra, theoretical models have been built in which the microturbulence is allowed to modify not only the Doppler line widths (classical 'spectroscopic' microturbulence), but also the turbulent pressure (thus mimicking a 'physical' turbulence). It is found that a corresponding modification of the temperature-pressure stratification influences the hydrogen and helium line profiles to the extent that the surface gravities of early O stars determined without considering microturbulence are too low by 0.1-0.15 dex. Thus, including microturbulence would reduce, or resolve completely, a long-standing discrepancy between evolutionary and spectroscopic stellar masses.

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