Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004apj...604..362d&link_type=abstract
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 604, Issue 1, pp. 362-371.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Line: Profiles, Stars: Abundances, Stars: Early-Type
Scientific paper
Chemical abundances are presented for carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, and sulfur in a sample of 25 OB stars that are members of open clusters, OB associations, and H II regions having Galactocentric distances that lie inside the solar Galactic orbit. The elemental abundances are derived from fits of observed high-resolution spectra to non-LTE synthetic line profiles. Our effective temperature scale is based on calibrations of the Strömgren photometric indices coupled to Hγ line profiles. For stars without Strömgren indices, the reddening-free Q-parameter, defined from UBV photometry is used, with the Q-parameter calibrated against Teff for stars that have Strömgren photometry. We also investigated other effective temperature scales from the literature and conclude that adoption of these other Teff scales, which typically result in lower temperatures, produces dependences of the derived abundances with Teff. Our non-LTE abundances reveal dispersions that are very similar to those expected from the analysis uncertainties. The solar abundances, some of which have been recently revised, fall within the abundance distributions defined by this sample of inner disk OB stars for all seven studied elements.
Based on observations collected with the 1.52 m telescope at the European Southern Observatory (La Silla, Chile) under agreement with the Observatório Nacional, Brazil.
Butler Keith
Cunha Katia
Daflon Simone
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