NLTE abundances of Cr in the Sun and metal-poor stars

Details NLTE abundances of Cr in the Sun and metal-poor stars NLTE abundances of Cr in the Sun and metal-poor stars

2010-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/1009.5693v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

5 pages, 1 figure, to appear in proceedings of 11-th Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos, Heidelberg, 2010

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We investigate statistical equilibrium of Cr in the atmospheres of late-type stars. The main goal is to ascertain the reason for a systematic abundance discrepancy between Cr I and Cr II lines, which is often encountered in spectroscopic analyses of metal-poor stars. Up to now, all these studies relied on the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) in the spectrum modelling. For the first time, we perform NLTE calculations in subdwarfs and subgiants of different metallicities. We show that the LTE assumption is inadequate to describe excitation-ionization equilibrium of Cr I/Cr II in stellar atmospheres and, as a result, leads to large errors in abundances. In particular, the NLTE abundance corrections to Cr I lines range from $+0.3$ to $+0.5$ dex at low [Fe/H]. The NLTE [Cr/Fe] trend in the halo and the disk is flat and can be reproduced by most of the models of Galactic chemical evolution with standard prescriptions for Cr and Fe nucleosynthesis.

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