Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-04-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 7 figures. Accepted to ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/340662
Hubble Space Telescope STIS observations of the B III resonance line at 2066A have been obtained and analyzed for two Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) B-type stars. While boron is not detected in either star, upper limits to the boron abundance are set, with 12+log(B/H) le 1.6 for both AV 304 and NGC 346-637. The upper limits are consistent with the relationship between boron and oxygen previously reported for Galactic disk stars. The SMC upper limits are discussed in light of that galaxy's star formation history, present oxygen abundance, and its present cosmic ray flux. The UV spectrum has also been used to determine the iron-group abundances in the SMC stars. For AV 304, [Fe/H]=-0.6 pm 0.2, from both an absolute and a differential analysis (with respect to the Galactic B-type star HD 36591). This is consistent with results from A-F supergiants in the SMC. A lower iron abundance is found for NGC 346-637, [Fe/H]=-1.0 pm 0.3, but this is in good agreement with the supergiant iron abundances in NGC 330,another young SMC cluster. We propose NGC 346-637 may be an unrecognized binary though, which complicates its spectral analysis.
Brooks Alyson M.
Cunha Katia
Lambert David L.
Lemke Michael
Smith Verne V.
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