Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aj....107..594e&link_type=abstract
Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 107, no. 2, p. 594-617
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Astronomical Catalogs, Binary Stars, Calibrating, Disk Galaxies, Early Stars, Giant Stars, Star Clusters, Stellar Composition, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Luminosity, Stellar Spectra, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Abundance, H Alpha Line, Light (Visible Radiation), Ultraviolet Radiation, Visible Spectrum
Scientific paper
From a sample of nearly 2000 GK giants a group of young disk stars with well determined space motions has been selected. The zero point of the luminosity calibrations, both from the ultraviolet flux (modified Stroemgren system) and that in the region of 4200 to 4900 A (DDO system), show a discontinuity of about a half magnitude at the border of the young disk and old disk domains. The population separation is based on the space velocity components, which are also an age discriminant, with the population interface near 2 x 109 yr, based on models with convective overshoot at the core. This age corresponds to giant masses near 1.7 solar mass, near the critical mass separating the young stars that do not burn helium in degenerate cores from older stars that do. Ten percent of both populations show CN anomalies in that the derived value of P(Fe/H) from CN (Cm) and from Fe(M1) differ by more than 0.1 dex and the weak and strong CN stars occur equally in the old disk but the weak CN stars predominate in the young disk. Peculiar stars, where flux distortions affect the luminosity calibrations, are of the CH+(Ba II) and CH-(weak G band) variety and represent less than 1% of the stars in both populations. The young disk giants are restricted to ages greater than about 109 yr, because younger stars are bright giants or supergiants (luminosity class 2 or 1), and younger than about 2 x 109 yr, because the old disk-young disk boundary occurs near 1.7 solar mass. The distribution of heavy element abundances, P(Fe/H), for young disk giants is both more limited in range (+/- 0.4 dex) and is skewed toward higher abundances, compared with the nearly normal distribution for old disk giants. The distribution of (U,V) velocity vectors gives (U,V,W) and their dispersions = (+17.6 +/- 18.4, -14.8 +/- 8.4, -6.9 +/- 13.0) and (+3.6 +/- 38.4, -20.7 +/- 27.5, -6.7 +/-17.3) km/s for young and old disk giants, respectively.
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