Apparently normal, high-latitude B stars from the Edinburgh-Cape survey - II

Details Apparently normal, high-latitude B stars from the Edinburgh-Cape survey - II Apparently normal, high-latitude B stars from the Edinburgh-Cape survey - II

Oct 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995mnras.276..906k&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 276, Issue 3, pp. 906-914.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Surveys, Stars: Early-Type, Stars: Horizontal Branch, Subdwarfs, Galaxy: Halo

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Low-dispersion spectrograms and UBV photometry are used to carry out a simple analysis of a second sample of apparently normal, high galactic latitude B stars detected in the Edinburgh-Cape faint blue object survey. The sample is bigger than that in Paper I and contains more faint stars. Of the 30 stars, eight are classified as `weak-line' stars and appear very similar to stars in the blue horizontal branch of globular clusters. A further eight stars are sdB stars (including two possible binaries), and 11 stars appear to be normal B stars. Nine of these have distances from the Galactic plane in the approximate range 1<=z<=4 kpc, and two are probably much more distant. These results, and those of Paper I, indicate that B stars at large distances from the Galactic plane (z<~5 kpc) must be very rare. Three stars do not fall into obvious categories; two of them are helium-rich and all may be hot subdwarfs.

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