Effects of line-blocking on the non-LTE Fe I spectral line formation

Details Effects of line-blocking on the non-LTE Fe I spectral line formation Effects of line-blocking on the non-LTE Fe I spectral line formation

2005-07-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507375v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in A&A, 8 pages, 12 figures (here degraded)

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053363

The effects of background line opacity (line-blocking) in statistical equilibrium calculations for Fe in late-type stellar atmospheres have been investigated using an extensive and up-to-date model atom with radiative data primarily from the IRON Project. The background metal line opacities have been computed using data from the MARCS stellar model atmospheres. While accounting for this line opacity is important at solar metallicity, the differences between calculations including and excluding line-blocking at low metallicity are insignificant for the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) abundance corrections for Fe I lines. The line-blocking has no impact on the non-LTE effects of Fe II lines. The dominant uncertainty in Fe non-LTE calculations for metal-poor stars is still the treatment of the inelastic H I collisions, which have here been included using scaling factors to the classical Drawin formalism, and whether or not thermalisation of the high Fe I levels to Fe II ground state should be enforced. Without such thermalisation, the Fe I non-LTE abundance corrections are substantial in metal-poor stars: about 0.3 dex with efficient (i.e. Drawin-like) H I collisions and about 0.5 dex without. Without both thermalisation and H I collisions, even Fe II lines show significant non-LTE effects in such stars.

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