Line Broadening in Field Metal-poor Red Giant and Red Horizontal Branch Stars

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2007-10-01

arxiv.org/abs/0710.0392v1

Astron.J.135:196-208,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in the Astronomical Journal

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10.1088/0004-6256/135/1/196

We report 349 radial velocities for 45 metal-poor field red giant and red horizontal branch stars. We have have identified one new spectroscopic binary, HD 4306, and one possible such system, HD 184711. We also report 57 radial velocities for 11 of the 91 stars reported on previously by Carney et al. (2003). As was found in the previous study, radial velocity "jitter" is present in many of the most luminous stars. Excluding stars showing spectroscopic binary orbital motion, all 7 of the red giants with M(V) <= -2.0 display jitter, as well as 3 of the 14 stars with -2.0 <= M(V) <= -1.4. We have also measured line broadening in all of the new spectra, using synthetic spectra as templates. The most luminous red giants show significant line broadening, as do many of the red horizontal branch stars, and we discuss briefly possible causes.

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