Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-06-19
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
9 pages, 7 figures and 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
Slow rotation and absence of strong mixing processes in atmospheres of chemically peculiar stars develop ideal conditions for the appearance of abundance anomalies through the mechanism of microscopic particle diffusion. This makes these objects look spectroscopically and photometrically different from their "normal" analogs. As a result, it is often difficult to accurately determine atmospheric parameters of these stars and special methods are needed for the consistent analysis of their atmospheres. The main aim of the present paper is to analyse atmospheric abundance and stratification of chemical elements in the atmosphere of the chemically peculiar star HD 103498. We find that two model atmospheres computed with individual and stratified abundances provide reasonable fit to observed spectroscopic and photometric indicators: Teff=9300 K, logg=3.5 and Teff=9500K, logg=3.6. It is shown that Mg has a large abundance gradient in the star's atmosphere with accumulation of Mg ions in the uppermost atmospheric layers, whereas Si demonstrates opposite behaviour with accumulation in deep layers. In addition, a detailed non-LTE analysis showed that none of Mg transitions under consideration is a subject of noticeable non-LTE effects. Comparing observed photometry transformed to physical units we estimated the radius of HD 103498 to be between R=(4.56 +/- 0.77)Rsun for Teff=9300K, logg=3.5 and R=(4.39 +/- 0.75)Rsun for Teff=9500K, logg=3.6 models respectively. We note that the lack of suitable observations in absolute units prevents us to uniquely determine the Teff of the star at the current stage of analysis.
Kochukhov Oleg
Pandey Chhavi P.
Ryabchikova Tanya
Shulyak Denis V.
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