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Jul 1996
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HST Proposal ID #6800
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Hst Proposal Id #6800 Interstellar Medium
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The proposed observations are the necessary continuation of previous approved proposals aiming at deriving the deuterium abundance in the local interstellar medium toward nearby hot stars. This estimate is of prime importance for the determination of the present D abundance within the Galaxy, one of the key-parameter of galactic evolution models. From Cycle 1 observations, we proved the efficiency of using nearby hot stars as targets. The data, in particular in the direction of G191-B2B {Lemoine et al., 1995}, also have demonstrated the extreme importance of observing, beside the HI and DI lines, the spectral region around the NI triplet. Very new observations just obtained {ID 5893} with GHRS ECH-A at the highest resolution constrain more tightly the evaluated D/H ratio. A significant variation {factor 3} of the D/H ratio from one component to the other is strongly infered toward G191-B2B. Although being a long lasting question, such a variability - if true - needs to be confirmed and understood to be able to estimate the really representative present day deuterium abundance, which may very well be different from the precise measurement in the direction of Capella {Linsky et al., 1993}. This motivates the present proposal aimed to derive D/H toward another white dwarf and its companion star for which the velocity structure is already rather well known: Sirius A and B.
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