Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992apj...399..586c&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 399, no. 2, p. 586-598.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
89
B Stars, Chemical Evolution, Main Sequence Stars, Oxygen Spectra, Abundance, Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics, Open Clusters
Scientific paper
Oxygen abundances are presented from LTE and non-LTE analyses of O II lines in spectra of 18 B mainsequence stars of the four subgroups comprising the Orion association. The lowest abundances are found in the oldest subgroups (Ia and Ib). The youngest subgroup Id, the Trapezium cluster, and some stars of the slightly older Ic subgroup seem to have an abundance that is up to about 40 percent higher. It is suggested that this enrichment resulted from the mixing of supernovae ejecta from the Ic subgroup with those adjacent portions of the dense molecular cloud that subsequently collapsed to form the Trapezium cluster. These stellar analyses confirm published abundance analyses of the H II region's emission lines that show Orion to have an oxygen abundance that is less than that of the Sun: the mean LTE/NLTE abundances are log epsilon(O) = 8.67/8.65 +/- 0.12 for the 18 stars whereas the solar abundance is log epsilon(O) = 8.93.
Cunha Katia
Lambert David L.
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