Accurate Fundamental Parameters or A, F, and G-type Supergiants in the Solar Neighbourhood

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2009-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/0911.1335v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

12 pages, 9 figures. Will be published at MNRAS

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The following parameters are determined for 63 Galactic supergiants in the solar neighbourhood: effective temperature Teff, surface gravity log g, iron abundance log e(Fe), microturbulent parameter Vt, mass M/Msun, age t and distance d. A significant improvement in the accuracy of the determination of log g and, all parameters dependent on it, is obtained through application of van Leeuwens (2007) re-reduction of the Hipparcos parallaxes. The typical error in the log g values is now +-0.06 dex for supergiants with distances d < 300 pc and +-0.12 dex for supergiants with d between 300 and 700 pc; the mean error in Teff for these stars is +-120 K. For supergiants with d > 700 pc parallaxes are uncertain or unmeasurable, so typical errors in their log g values are 0.2-0.3 dex. A new Teff scale for A5-G5 stars of luminosity classes Ib-II is presented. Spectral subtypes and luminosity classes of several stars are corrected. Combining the Teff and log g with evolutionary tracks, stellar masses and ages are determined; a majority of the sample has masses between 4 Msun and 15 Msun and, hence, their progenitors were early to middle B-type main sequence stars. Using Fe ii lines, which are insensitive to departures from LTE, the microturbulent parameter Vt and the iron abundance log e(Fe) are determined from high-resolution spectra. The parameter Vt is correlated with gravity: Vt increases with decreasing log g. The mean iron abundance for the 48 supergiants with distances d < 700 pc is log e(Fe)=7.48+-0.09, a value close to the solar value of 7.45+-0.05, and thus the local supergiants and the Sun have the same metallicity.

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