Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-05-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, Latex, 2 Postscript figures, uses supertab.sty mpeg simulations available at http://www.sao.ru/~valenta/uu_her/uu_he
Scientific paper
In order to understand the evolutionary status of the anomalous supergiant UUHer, the prototype of the class of variable supergiants located at high galactic latitudes, we obtained several high-resolution spectra of this star, with the 6m telescope, over 5 years. This material was used for a search of possible temporal variations of the radial velocity at the different depths in the photosphere and for studying the chemical composition. The average radial velocity Vr approximately 130 km/sec suggests that UUHer belongs to the old population of the Galaxy. No systematic dependence of the velocity on depth of the line formation layer or on ionization and excitation potential is observed. The radial velocity of the H_alpha absorption differs strongly from the average photospheric velocity. The iron abundance in the photosphere of UUHer is significantly lower than that of the Sun: [Fe/H]=-1.32. The enhancement of nitrogen relatively to iron content [N/Fe]=+0.40 in combination with the carbon underabundance [C/Fe]=-0.30 suggests that only a first dredge-up episode occurred. The Na content is normal relatively to iron, therefore there is no evidence for dredging-up of Ne-Na cycle products. The heavy s-process metals Y, Ba are depleted relative to H and Fe, which again implies that the third dredge-up did not occur.
Chentsov Eugene L.
Klochkova Valentina G.
Panchuk Vladimir E.
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