Homogeneous photometry and metal abundances for a large sample of Hipparcos metal-poor stars

Details Homogeneous photometry and metal abundances for a large sample of Hipparcos metal-poor stars Homogeneous photometry and metal abundances for a large sample of Hipparcos metal-poor stars

1998-08-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9808298v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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16 pages LaTex, (MNRAS style), including 6 Tables and 10 figures, accepted for publication in the MNRAS, also available at f

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02098.x

Homogeneous photometric data (Johnson V, B-V, V-K, Cousins V-I and Stromgren b-y), radial velocities, and abundances of Fe, O, Mg, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr and Ni are presented for 99 stars with high precision parallaxes measured by the Hipparcos satellite. These data have been previously used to assist the derivation of accurate distances and ages of galactic globular clusters. Magnitudes and colours for the programme stars were obtained combining and standardizing carefully selected literature data available in the Simbad data-base and V and B-V values measured by the Hipparcos/Tycho mission. Comparison of colours for our targets suggests: (i) ground-based and Tycho B-V's agree well for colours bluer than 0.75 mag, but have a lot of scatter for redder colours; (ii) the Hipparcos V-I colours have a very large scatter and a zero point offset of +0.02 mag compared to the literature values. The programme stars have metal abundances in the range -2.5<[Fe/H]<0.2. The spectroscopic observational data set consists of high dispersion (15,000200) spectra obtained at the Asiago and McDonald Observatories for 66 stars. The analysis is carried out following the same precepts used in previous papers of this series and includes corrections for departures from LTE in the formation of the O lines. The main results are: (i) the equilibrium of ionization of Fe is well satisfied in late F-early K-dwarfs; (ii) Oxygen and alpha-elements are overabundant by about 0.3 dex. This large homogeneous abundance data set has been used to recalibrate the abundance scales of Schuster and Nissen (1989, AA, 221, 65), Carney et al. (1994, AJ, 107, 2240), and Ryan and Norris (1991, AJ, 101, 1835).

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