On the effect of helium enhancement on bolometric corrections and Teff-colour relations

Details On the effect of helium enhancement on bolometric corrections and Teff-colour relations On the effect of helium enhancement on bolometric corrections and Teff-colour relations

2007-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703094v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20077129

We evaluate the effects that variations in He content have on bolometric corrections and Teff-colour relations. To this aim, we compute ATLAS9 model atmospheres and spectral energy distributions for effective temperatures ranging from 3500 K to 40000 K for dwarfs and from 3500 K to 8000 K for giants, considering both ``He-non enhanced'' and ``He-enhanced'' compositions. The considered variations in He content are of DeltaY = +0.1 and +0.2 for the metallicity [M/H]=+0.5 and DeltaY=+0.1 for [M/H]=-0.5 and -1.5. Then, synthetic photometry is performed in the UBVRIJHK system. We conclude that the changes in bolometric corrections, caused by the adopted He-enhancements are in general too small (less than 0.01 mag), for both dwarfs and giants, to be affecting present-day tables of bolometric corrections at a significant level. The only possible exceptions are found for the U-band at Teff between 4000 K and 8000 K, where |Delta BC_U| amounts to ~0.02 mag, and for Teff equal to 3500 K, where |Delta BC_lambda| values become clearly much higher (up to 0.06 mag for passbands from U to V). However, even in the latter case the overall uncertainty caused by variations in the He content may be not so significant, because the ATLAS9 results are still approximative at their lowest temperature limit.

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