The non-LTE line formation of neutral carbon in late-type stars

Details The non-LTE line formation of neutral carbon in late-type stars The non-LTE line formation of neutral carbon in late-type stars

2006-08-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0608284v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in A&A, 19 pages, 2 tables, 11 figures, aa.cls v6.0 included

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20065763

We investigate the non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (non-LTE) line formation of neutral carbon in late-type stars in order to remove some of the potential systematic errors in stellar abundance analyses employing C I features. The statistical equilibrium code MULTI was used on a grid of plane-parallel 1D MARCS atmospheric models. Within the parameter space explored, the high-excitation C I lines are stronger in non-LTE due to the combined effect of line source function drop and increased lower level population; the relative importance of the two effects depends on the particular combination of Teff, log g, [Fe/H] and [C/Fe] and on the analysed C I line. As a consequence, the non-LTE abundance corrections are negative and can be substantially so, for example ~-0.4 dex in halo turn-off stars at [Fe/H]~-3. The magnitude of the non-LTE corrections is rather insensitive to whether inelastic H collisions are included or not. Our results have implications on studies of nucleosynthetic processes and on Galactic chemical evolution models. When applying our calculated corrections to recent observational data, the upturn in [C/O] at low metallicity might still be present (thus apparently still necessitating contributions from massive Pop. III stars for the carbon production), but at a lower level and possibly with a rather shallow trend of ~-0.2 dex/dex below [O/H]~-1

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