Model atmospheres of cool, low-metallicity stars: the importance of collision-induced absorption.

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Aug 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997a%26a...324..185b&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.324, p.185-195

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

119

Molecular Data, Molecular Processes, Stars: Atmospheres, Stars: Late-Type, Stars: Low-Mass, Infrared: Stars

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We have extended our data base of collision induced absorption (CIA) in the high-temperature regime applicable to stellar atmospheres. Improvements of existing data include computation of series of hot-bands and extension of the spectral wings much further away from the maxima than hitherto. Computation of new bands includes the first and the second overtone bands of H_2_-H_2_. We apply these data to an extensive grid of oxygen-rich model atmospheres with scaled solar metallicities in order to investigate for which range of fundamental stellar parameters (i.e., effective temperature, gravity, and chemical composition) CIA has a significant impact on the atmospheric structure. Besides the CIA due to H_2_-H_2_ and H_2_-He pairs, our models include complete molecular line data for TiO, H_2_O, CN, CH, and SiO. For stellar models with low effective temperatures, high gravity, and low metallicity, the atmospheric structure and the emergent spectrum are completely dominated by the effects of CIA. For our test-models of lowest effective temperature and lowest metallicity (T_eff_=2800K and Z=10^-3^Zsun_) the effect of CIA is pronounced even for sub-giant stars with log(g)=2.0. For dwarf models with Z=10^-3^Zsun_ and log(g)=5.0 the effects are visible in the overall flux distribution for effective temperatures as high as 4000K, and for models with T_eff_=2800K and log(g)=5.0 CIA has effects on the spectrum of stars with metallicities as high as 0.1Zsun_.

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