On the incidence of chemically peculiar stars in the Large Magellanic cloud

Details On the incidence of chemically peculiar stars in the Large Magellanic cloud On the incidence of chemically peculiar stars in the Large Magellanic cloud

2005-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507564v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.362:1025-1030,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 1 figure, accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09371.x

With the aim to corroborate the result of a search for chemically peculiar stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) we present measurements obtained from CCD-imaging of two fields, one containing a young open cluster (NGC 1711). While for the latter field, including its surrounding we obtain a contribution of three percent of chemically peculiar stars detectable by Delta a photometry (i.e. the magnetic objects of this group), the second field yields about half of this value in good accordance with the finding for NGC 1866 (Maitzen et al., 2001, A&A, 371, L5) the surrounding field of which has been found to exhibit a very low value of such stars - 0.3%. Thus we are faced with the fact, that our incipient impression about a substantially lower appearance of magnetic chemically peculiar stars in the LMC as compared to the Galaxy continues to be valid. Most of the photometrically identified peculiar stars (from their historical origin denominated Ap-stars) are located in the domain of the B-type stars. But this is a selection effect due to the limiting magnitude of our observing conditions impeding the observation of fainter main sequence stars. In addition to objects showing up as positive deviators in Delta a photometry we also discuss nine stars which appear opposite the main line of normal stars, hence are negative deviators. For most of them the interpretation as emission stars of B-type seems to be appropriate. The statistically relevant number of observations obtained so far in the LMC supports the view that the formation of magnetic peculiar stars has occurred there at a significantly lower rate.

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