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A&A
Volume 688, August 2024
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Article Number | A193 | |
Number of page(s) | 20 | |
Section | Stellar atmospheres | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202450604 | |
Published online | 23 August 2024 |
Ariel stellar characterisation
II. Chemical abundances of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen for 181 planet-host FGK dwarf stars★,★★
1
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma,
via Frascati 33,
00078
Monte Porzio Catone,
Italy
e-mail: ronaldo.oliveira@inaf.it
2
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Space Science Data Center,
via del Politecnico snc,
00133
Rome,
Italy
3
INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri,
Largo E. Fermi 5,
50125
Firenze,
Italy
4
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC,
Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n,
18008
Granada,
Spain
5
Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Universidade do Porto, CAUP,
Rua das Estrelas,
4150-762
Porto,
Portugal
6
INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino,
via Osservatorio 20,
10025
Pino Torinese,
Italy
7
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera,
Via E. Bianchi 46,
23807
Merate (LC),
Italy
8
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences,
ul. Rabiańska 8,
87-100
Toruń,
Poland
9
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo,
Piazza del Parlamento 1,
90134
Palermo,
Italy
10
Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University,
Cotter Rd.,
Weston,
ACT 2611,
Australia
11
ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D),
Stromlo,
Australia
12
INAF – Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna,
via P. Gobetti 93/3,
40129
Bologna,
Italy
Received:
3
May
2024
Accepted:
13
June
2024
Context. One of the ultimate goals of the ESA Ariel space mission is to shed light on the formation pathways and evolution of planetary systems in the Solar neighbourhood. Stellar elemental abundances are the cipher key to decode planetary compositional signatures. This makes it imperative to perform a large chemical survey not only of the planets, but their host stars as well.
Aims. This work is aimed at providing homogeneous chemical abundances for C, N, and O among a sample of 181 stars belonging to Tier 1 of the Ariel mission candidate sample.
Methods. We applied the spectral synthesis and equivalent width methods to a variety of atomic and molecular indicators (C I lines at 5052 and 5380.3 Å, [O I] forbidden line at 6300.3 Å, C2 bands at 5128 and 5165 Å, and CN band at 4215 Å) using high-resolution and high signal-to-noise spectra collected with a range of spectrographs.
Results. We determined carbon abundances for 180 stars, nitrogen abundances for 105 stars, and oxygen abundances for 89 stars. We analysed the results in the light of the Galactic chemical evolution and in terms of the planetary companion properties. We find that our sample essentially follows standard trends with respect to the metallicity values expected for the [C/Fe], [N/Fe], and [O/Fe] abundance ratios. The proportion between carbon and oxygen abundances (both yields of primary production) is consistent with a constant ratio as [O/H] increases. Meanwhile, the abundance of nitrogen tends to increase with the increasing of the oxygen abundance, supporting the theoretical assumption of a secondary production of nitrogen. The [C/N], [C/O], and [N/O] abundance ratios are also correlated with [Fe/H], which might introduce biases in the interpretation of the planetary compositions and formation histories when host stars of different metallicities are compared. Finally, we provide relations that can be used to qualitatively estimate whether the atmospheric composition of planets is enriched (or otherwise) with respect to the host stars.
Key words: planets and satellites: composition / stars: abundances / planetary systems / Galaxy: disk / Galaxy: evolution / solar neighborhood
Full Table 1 is available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr (130.79.128.5) or via https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/688/A193
Based on data from public telescope archives and from observations collected at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) under programmes 105.20P2.001 and 106.21QS.001, at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) Observatory under programmes 2021_2022_25 and IT-2022-024, with the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) under programmes AOT41_TAC25 and AOT42_TAC20, and with the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) under programme 2023-1-SCI-005.
© The Authors 2024
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