Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992apj...390..253b&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 390, no. 1, May 1, 1992, p. 253-265.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15
Abundance, B Stars, Carbon, Late Stars, Nitrogen, Stellar Spectra, Chromosphere, Emission Spectra, Line Spectra, Spectrum Analysis, Stellar Coronas
Scientific paper
The possibility of determining relative carbon, nitrogen, and silicon abundances from the emission-line fluxes in the lower transition layers between stellar chromospheres and coronae is explored. Observations for main-sequence and luminosity class IV stars with presumably solar element abundances show that for the lower transition layers Em = BT-gamma. For a given carbon abundance the constants gamma and B in this relation can be determined from the C II and C IV emission-line fluxes. From the N V and S IV lines, the abundances of these elements relative to carbon can be determined from their surface emission-line fluxes. Ratios of N/C abundances determined in this way for some giants and supergiants agree within the limits of errors with those determined from molecular bands. For giants, an increase in the ratio of N/C at B-V of about 0.8 is found, as expected theoretically.
Boehm-Vitense Erika
Mena-Werth Jose
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