The abundance pattern of the lambda Bootis stars

Details The abundance pattern of the lambda Bootis stars The abundance pattern of the lambda Bootis stars

2001-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112196v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.381, p.959-970 (2002)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 6 figures, 8 tables, accepted by A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20011593

Within a project to investigate the properties of lambda Bootis stars, we report on their abundance pattern. High resolution spectra have been obtained for a total of twelve candidate lambda Bootis stars, four of them being contained in spectroscopic binary systems, and detailed abundance analyses have been performed. All program stars show a characteristic lambda Bootis abundance pattern (deficient heavy elements and solar abundant light elements) and an enhanced abundance of Na. This work raises the fraction of lambda Bootis stars with known abundances to 50%. The resulting abundances complemented by literature data are used to construct a "mean lambda Bootis abundance pattern", which exhibits, apart from general underabundances of heavy elements (about -1 dex) and solar abundances of C, N, O, Na and S, a star-to-star scatter which is up to twice as large as for a comparable sample of normal stars.

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