Model Photospheres for Late-Type Stars from the Inversion of High-Resolution Spectroscopic Observations. Groombridge 1830 and Epsilon Eridani

Details Model Photospheres for Late-Type Stars from the Inversion of High-Resolution Spectroscopic Observations. Groombridge 1830 and Epsilon Eridani Model Photospheres for Late-Type Stars from the Inversion of High-Resolution Spectroscopic Observations. Groombridge 1830 and Epsilon Eridani

1999-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9907368v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages, AASTEX; 9 Figures (12 PostScript files); to be published in The Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/308213

An inversion technique to recover LTE one-dimensional model photospheres for late-type stars, which was previously applied to the Sun (Allende Prieto et al. 1998), is now employed to reconstruct, semi-empirically, the photospheres of cooler dwarfs: the metal-poor Gmb1830 and the active star of solar-metallicity Eps Eri. The model atmospheres we find reproduce satisfactorily all the considered weak-to-moderate neutral lines of metals, satisfying in detail the excitation equilibrium of iron, the wings of strong lines, and the slope of the optical continuum. The retrieved models show a slightly steeper temperature gradient than flux-constant model atmospheres in the layers where log tau <= -0.5. We argue that these differences should reflect missing ingredients in the flux-constant models and point to granular-like inhomogeneities as the best candidate. The iron ionization equilibrium is well satisfied by the model for Gmb1830, but not for Eps Eri, for which a discrepancy of 0.2 dex between the logarithmic iron abundance derived from neutral and singly ionized lines may signal departures from LTE. The chemical abundances of calcium, titanium, chromium, and iron derived with the empirical models from neutral lines do not differ much from previous analyses based on flux-constant atmospheric structures.

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