Reprocessing the Hipparcos data for evolved giant stars II. Absolute magnitudes for the R-type carbon stars

Details Reprocessing the Hipparcos data for evolved giant stars II. Absolute magnitudes for the R-type carbon stars Reprocessing the Hipparcos data for evolved giant stars II. Absolute magnitudes for the R-type carbon stars

2001-03-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103141v1

Astron.Astrophys. 371 (2001) 222-232

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 6 figures, A&A Latex. To appear in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20010348

The Hipparcos Intermediate Astrometric Data for carbon stars have been reprocessed using an algorithm which provides an objective criterion for rejecting anomalous data points and constrains the parallax to be positive. New parallax solutions have been derived for 317 cool carbon stars, mostly of types R and N. In this paper we discuss the results for the R stars. The most important result is that the early R stars (i.e., R0 - R3) have absolute magnitudes and V-K colors locating them among red clump giants in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. Stars with subtypes R4 - R9 tend to be cooler and have similar luminosity to the N-type carbon stars, as confirmed by their position in the (J-H, H-K) color-color diagram. The sample of early R-type stars selected from the Hipparcos Catalogue appears to be approximately complete to magnitude K_0 ~ 7, translating into a completeness distance of 600 pc if all R stars had M_K= -2 (400 pc if M_K= -1). With about 30 early R-type stars in that volume, they comprise about 0.04% (0.14% for M_K= -1) of the red clump stars in the solar neighborhood. Identification with the red clump locates these stars at the helium core burning stage of stellar evolution, while the N stars are on the asymptotic giant branch, where helium shell burning occurs. The present analysis suggests that for a small fraction of the helium core burning stars (far lower than the fraction of helium shell-burning stars), carbon produced in the interior is mixed to the atmosphere in sufficient quantities to form a carbon star.

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