Carbon stars in local group dwarf galaxies: C and O abundances

Details Carbon stars in local group dwarf galaxies: C and O abundances Carbon stars in local group dwarf galaxies: C and O abundances

2006-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0605244v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 7 figures, Proceeding of the 8th Torino Workshop in Granada, February, 2006

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We present abundances of carbon and oxygen as well as abundance ratios 12C/13C for a sample of carbon stars in the LMC, SMC, Carina, Sculptor and Fornax dwarf galaxies. The overall metallicities in these dwarf galaxies are lower than in the galactic disc. The observations cover most of the AGB and we discuss the abundance patterns in different regions along the AGB. The abundances are determined from infrared spectra obtained with the ISAAC spectrometer on VLT (R=1500) and the Phoenix Spectrometer on Gemini South (R=50000). The synthetic spectra used in the analysis were computed with MARCS model atmospheres. We find that the oxygen abundance is decreasing with decreasing overall metallicity of the system while the C/O ratio at a given evolutionary phase is increasing with decreasing oxygen abundance. keywords Stars: abundances -- Stars: carbon -- Stars: AGB and post-AGB -- Galaxies: dwarf -- Local Group -- Infrared: stars

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