Issue |
A&A
Volume 427, Number 3, December I 2004
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Page(s) | 1085 - 1096 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20040509 | |
Published online | 16 November 2004 |
Are beryllium abundances anomalous in stars with giant planets?*
1
Centro de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Universidade de Lisboa, Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-018 Lisboa, Portugal e-mail: Nuno.Santos@oal.ul.pt
2
Observatoire de Genève, 51 Ch. des Maillettes, 1290 Sauverny, Switzerland
3
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, 38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
4
Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, Av. Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez s/n, 38206, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
5
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
6
INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy
Received:
24
March
2004
Accepted:
22
July
2004
In this paper we present beryllium (Be) abundances in a large sample of 41 extra-solar planet host stars, and for 29 stars without any known planetary-mass companion, spanning a large range of effective temperatures. The Be abundances were derived through spectral synthesis done in standard Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium, using spectra obtained with various instruments. The results seem to confirm that overall, planet-host stars have “normal” Be abundances, although a small, but not significant, difference might be present. This result is discussed, and we show that this difference is probably not due to any stellar “pollution” events. In other words, our results support the idea that the high-metal content of planet-host stars has, overall, a “primordial” origin. However, we also find a small subset of planet-host late-F and early-G dwarfs that might have higher than average Be abundances. The reason for the offset is not clear, and might be related either to the engulfment of planetary material, to galactic chemical evolution effects, or to stellar-mass differences for stars of similar temperature.
Key words: stars: abundances / stars: fundamental parameters / stars: planetary systems / stars: planetary systems: formation / stars: atmospheres
Based on observations collected with the VLT/UT2 Kueyen telescope (Paranal Observatory, ESO, Chile) using the UVES spectrograph (Observing runs 66.C-0116 A, 66.D-0284 A, and 68.C-0058 A), and with the William Herschel and Nordic Optical Telescopes, operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group and jointly by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Norway, respectively, in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.
© ESO, 2004
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