Lithium abundances from the 6104A line in cool Pleiades stars

Details Lithium abundances from the 6104A line in cool Pleiades stars Lithium abundances from the 6104A line in cool Pleiades stars

2002-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0206246v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 7 figures; Accepted by A&A 17/05/02

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20020779

Lithium abundances determined by spectral synthesis from both the 6708A resonance line and the 6104 subordinate line are reported for 11 late-type Pleiades stars, including spectra previously analysed by Russell (1996). We report a 0.7 dex scatter in the abundances from 6708A, and a scatter at least as large from the 6104A line. We find a reasonable correllation between the 6104A and 6708A Li abundances, although four stars have 6104A-determined abundances which are significantly larger than the 6708-determined values, by up to 0.5 dex, suggesting problems with the homogeneous, one-dimensional atmospheres being used. We show that these discrepancies can be explained, although probably not uniquely, by the presence of star spots with plausible coverage fractions. The addition of spots does not significantly reduce the apparent scatter in Li abundances, leaving open the possibility that at least some of the spread is caused by real star-to-star differences in pre-main- sequence Li depletion.

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