Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-07-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
24 pages (including 3 tables and 5 figures), 5 postscript figures incorporated with "\includegraphics" command, formatted in L
Scientific paper
The abundance of oxygen was determined for selected very metal-poor G-K stars (six giants and one turn-off star) based on the high S/N and high-resolution spectra observed with Keck HIRES in the red through near-IR region comprising the permitted O I lines (7771-5, 8446) along with the [O I] forbidden line at 6363 A. It turned out that both the abundances from the permitted line features, O I 7771-5 and O I 8446, agree quite well with each other, while the forbidden line yields somewhat discrepant and divergent abundances with a tendency of being underestimated on the average. The former (7773/8446) solution, which we believe to be more reliable, gives a fairly tight [O/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] relation such that increasing steadily from [O/Fe] = 0.6 (at [Fe/H] = -1.5) to [O/Fe] = 1.0 (at [Fe/H] = -3.0), in reasonable consistency with the trend recently reported based on the analysis of the UV OH lines. We would suspect that some kind of weakening mechanism may occasionally act on the formation of [O I] forbidden lines in metal-poor stars. Therefore, [O I] lines may not be so a reliable abundance indicator as has been generally believed.
Barlow Thomas A.
Jugaku Jun
Lu Linyuan
Sargent Wallace L. W.
Sato Sasumu
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