Abundance analyses of metal-poor stars. I - Blue spectra of 15 high-velocity dwarfs

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Abundance, Dwarf Stars, Line Spectra, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Heavy Elements, Metallic Stars, Tables (Data), Ubv Spectra

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The abundance analysis of a variety of metal-poor stars is undertaken in an effort to extract accurate relative abundances of the heavy elements over a wide range of stellar metallicities and temperatures. Results derived from photometric Cassegrain echelle spectra are presented for 15 dwarfs and subgiants selected from the high-velocity catalog of Eggen. Overall metallicities range from one-fourth to one-hundredth solar, and temperatures vary from 5250 to 6250 K. The outstanding difficulty is the determination of stellar effective temperature. The apparent presence of systematic errors in Fe I transition probabilities forces a dependence upon broad-band colors to set the zero point of the scale of stellar effective temperatures; the resultant uncertainty of 150 K dominates the overall uncertainty of 0.20 dex in the scale of stellar metallicity values.

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