Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aas...183.7414c&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 183rd AAS Meeting, #74.14; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 25, p.1408
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Optical spectra (at 0.9 Angstroms /pixel dispersion) for 24 candidate blue horizontal branch stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752 have been obtained with ARGUS, the multi-object spectrograph on the CTIO 4.0m telescope. In addition to strong hydrogen lines, ten of the stars exhibit the 4471 Angstroms line of neutral helium. The equivalent widths of this line, the full widths of H_γ and H_δ at the 20% absorption level and BV CCD photometry have been used to derive effective temperatures, surface gravities and surface helium abundances for our program objects. With the exception of one star which has an exceptionally strong 4471 Angstroms line, all of the objects with detected helium are consistent with the rather low value of N(He)/N(H) =~ 0.008, suggesting that neither enhanced atmospheric helium nor increased stellar rotation is responsible for the extremely blue horizontal branch observed in this intermediate metallicity cluster.
Bolte Michael
Cote' Patrick
Patel Kalpana
Wilson Christine Diana
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