Improved helium line formation for EHe stars

Details Improved helium line formation for EHe stars Improved helium line formation for EHe stars

2005-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512152v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures; to appear in: Baltic Astronomy, Proceedings of the Second Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars an Related Objects

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Quantitative analyses of extreme helium stars to date face the difficulty that theory fails to reproduce the observed helium lines in their entirety, wings and line cores. Here, we demonstrate how the issues can be resolved using state-of-the-art non-LTE line formation for these chemically peculiar objects. Two unique B-type objects are discussed in detail, the pulsating variable V652 Her and the metal-poor star HD144941. The improved non-LTE computations for helium show that analyses assuming LTE or based on older non-LTE model atoms can predict equivalent widths, for the HeI 10830A transition in particular, in error by up to a factor ~3. Our modelling approach also succeeds in largely resolving the general mismatch for effective temperatures of EHe stars derived from ionization equilibria and from spectral energy distributions.

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