HST Observations of Carbon and Hydrogen in Hot DB White Dwarfs

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Dec 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998aas...193.3705p&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 193rd AAS Meeting, #37.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 30, p.1300

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We present GHRS observations centered at 1215 and 1335 { Angstroms} of the hot helium white dwarfs PG0112+104 and GD190. We detect hydrogen and carbon in both objects, raising the number of hot DBs with known traces of these elements to three (including GD 358). We calculate hydrogen and carbon surface abundances and corresponding mass fractions using the stellar atmospheres program Tlusty and the convection calculations of Althaus & Benvenuto (1996). The hydrogen mass fraction is {MH~ 10(-17}M_{*}) in all three objects. This disturbing number is nearly two orders of magnitude below the predictions of chemical evolution. If the carbon originates from convective dredge-up of the underlying core, the process is initiated at temperatures much higher than expected.

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