A&A 406, 975-980 (2003)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030620
D. Kocer 1 - S. J. Adelman2,3 - H. Caliskan4 - A. F. Gulliver 3,5 - H. Gokmen Tektunali 4
1 - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science
& Letters,
stanbul Kültür University, E5 Karayolu Üzeri,
34510, Sirinevler,
stanbul, Turkey
2 - Department of Physics, The Citadel, 171 Moultrie Street, Charleston,
SC 29409, USA
3 - Guest Investigator, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Herzberg
Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada,
5071 W. Saanich Road, Victoria, BC, V9E 2E7 Canada
4 - Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences,
stanbul University,
34452 University,
stanbul, Turkey
5 - Department of Physics, Brandon University, Brandon, MB R7A 6A9 Canada
Received 31 March 2003 / Accepted 24 April 2003
Abstract
The superficially normal stars
And (A2 V),
Del
(B6 III),
Aqr (A1.5 V), and
And (B9 V), which have
rotationally broadened line profiles, are analyzed in a manner consistent with
previous studies of this series using 2.4 Å mm-1 spectrograms obtained
with CCD detectors and
.
Their variable radial velocities strongly
suggest they are spectroscopic binaries. As no evidence is seen for lines of
their companions they are analyzed as single stars. Their derived abundances
are generally near solar. But those for
And suggest that it is
possibly a fast rotating Am star.
Key words: stars: abundances - stars: individual:
And - stars:
individual:
Del - stars: individual:
Aqr - stars:
individual:
And
Although most stars studied in this series of papers are quite sharp-lined,
some showed definite rotation (e.g., Merak, Adelman 1996;
UMa and 29 Cyg, Adelman 1999). With high signal-to-noise spectrograms (
)
obtained with Reticon and CCD detectors, one can study such stars and still
obtain quite decent derived abundances especially when
km s-1. This permits some investigation of whether the sharpest-lined
normal stars have abundances which are typical for their spectral type.
Our intent is to see how the technique of fine analysis works for two
stars, whose values, we believe are near the upper limit for this
technique, compared with spectral synthesis. We also contribute additional
data concerning two stars apparently rotating at about half of this value and
obtain initial values for future synthetic spectral analyses. Some atomic
species which cannot be studied by fine analyses might be by synthesizing the
spectrum. We recognize from the outset that we can use only those lines with
at most minimal blending.
The stars
And (24 And, HD 1280, HR 63), spectral type A2 IV (Abt &
Morrell 1995),
Aqr (2 Aqr, HD 198001, HR 7950), spectral type A1.5 V
(Abt & Morrell 1995), and
And (17 And, HD 222173, HR 8965), spectral
type B9 V (Abt et al. 2002) are among the least variable stars in photometry
from the Hipparcos satellite (Adelman 2001).
Del (2 Del, HD 195810,
HR 7852) is spectral type B6 III (Abt et al. 2002).
Aqr has been
used as a secondary spectrophotometric standard (see, e.g., Taylor 1984).
Hill (1995) derived abundances from both
And and
Aqr, which
have rotational velocities near 100 km s-1, using spectral synthesis
techniques. Both
Del and
And have smaller
values and
hence are much more amenable to study. Glushneva et al. (1992)
proposed
And as a secondary spectrophotometric standard and Napiwotzki et al.
(1993) derived
K,
.
For all four stars we obtained Dominion Astrophysical Observatory (DAO) 2.4
Å mm-1 SITe-2 or SITe-4 CCD spectrograms with a typical signal-to-noise
ratio of 200 and a wavelength coverage of 63 or 144 Å, respectively. The two pixel resolution is 0.072 Å which at 4500 corresponds to a
resolving power of 62 500 or 4.8 km s-1. The
observations were started with the SITe-2 CCD with the intent of obtaining
exposures with central wavelengths between
3830 and
4740
with 55 Å offsets. Later when the longer SITe-4 CCD became available, the
program was changed to exposures with central wavelengths between
3898 and
4864 with 138 Å offsets. For all four stars, we
obtained at least the originally planned coverage. Further 20 Å mm-1 DAO spectrograms containing the H
region were acquired for
And and
Aqr. We extracted the H
profiles for
Del
and
And from SITe4 spectra centered at
4864. To flat field
the exposures we used exposures of an incandescent lamp in the Coudé
mirror train, which was viewed through a filter to eliminate first order
light. A central stop removed light from the beam in the same manner as the
secondary mirror of the telescope. We rectified the exposures with the
interactive computer graphics program REDUCE (Hill et al. 1982)
and applied a 3.5% correction for scattered light in the dispersion direction
(Gulliver et al. 1996) for many of the SITe-2 spectrograms. The
scattered light for the remaining SITe-2 and for all SITe-4 spectrograms was
removed during the extraction procedure using the program CCDSPEC (Gulliver &
Hill 2002).
We fit rotational profiles through the metal lines of all four stars.
Rotational velocity estimates from clearly single, medium-strength lines near 4481 are 93 km s-1 for
And, 54 km s-1 for
Del, 110 km s-1 for
Aqr, and 60 km s-1 for
And. Often the He I lines showed Gaussian or Lorentzian profiles. The
lines of
And with equivalent widths
30 mÅ usually showed
Gaussian profiles and were so fit. In measuring the spectrum with VLINE (Hill et al. 1982) the fixed parameter feature was applied, particularly
to the line widths, as needed to better fit close blends. In any star with
moderate rotation one has to be selective in choosing lines to be analyzed due
to a substantial amount of line blending. Measuring
And was more
difficult than
Aqr despite its slightly greater rotational velocity.
In comparison Hill (1995) finds
km s-1 and 108 km s-1for
And and
Aqr, respectively. Abt & Morrell (1995) quote
km s-1 for both
And and
Aqr. Abt et al.
(2002) find 70 and 50 km s-1, respectively, for
And and
Del.
The stellar lines were identified with the general references A Multiplet Table
of Astrophysical Interest (Moore 1945) and Wavelengths and Transition
Probabilities for Atoms and Atomic Ions, Part 1 (Reader & Corliss 1980) as
well as Huldt et al. (1982) for Ti II, Iglesias & Velasco (1964) for Mn II,
Nave et al. (1994) for Fe I, and Johansson (1978) for Fe II. Lines of Mg I, Mg II, Al I, Si II, Ca I, Ca II, Ti II, Cr I, Cr II, Mn II, Fe I, Fe II, Ni I, Ni II, Sr II, Y II, Zr II, and Ba II were sufficiently unblended for abundances to
be derived in the observed spectrum of
And. For
Del we
found lines of He I, C II, N II, O I, Mg II, Al II, Si II, Si III, S II, Ca II,
Ti II, Cr II, Fe II, Ni II, and Sr II. While for
Aqr, we used lines
of C I, Mg II, Al I, Si II, Ca I, Ca II, Ti II, V II, Cr I, Cr II, Fe I, Fe II,
Ni II, Sr II, Zr II, and Ba II. The
And spectra provided lines of He I, C II, O I, Mg II, Al II, Si II, S II, Ca II, Ti II, Cr II, Fe II, and Ni II
for analysis.
The radial velocities (Table 1) were found from comparisons of the stellar and laboratory wavelengths after corrections were applied for the Earth's orbital velocity. All four stars apparently have variable radial velocities. Although often these values depend on measuring only a few lines, in general when listed in JD order the differences between values obtained on adjacent nights are small. A few values may be discrepant. As there was no evidence for the lines of the secondaries, we analyze these stars as if they are single.
Abt & Biggs (1972) show values for the radial velocity of
And between -4.7 and +6.2 km s-1. Duflot et al. (1995) give 0.9 km s-1 based on
36 values. Those from 6 SITe-4 DAO spectrograms average 2
5 km s-1
and those from 5 SITe-2 DAO spectrograms
km s-1. The
uncertainty in the individual spectrum measurements averages 1.0 km s-1.
Those based on SITe-4 spectrograms contain about 2.3 times the number of lines
as those based on SITe-2 spectrograms. Although this star has a difficult
spectrum to measure, these values suggest possible variability.
The mean radial velocity from 20 spectrograms of
Del was
km s-1 which is suggestive of variability. We did not include a
radial velocity based on only one line. The uncertainty in the individual
spectrum measurements averages 1.4 km s-1. Abt & Biggs (1972) list
values between -17.2 and -29.3 km s-1 while Duflot et al. (1995) give
-19.3 km s-1.
From 8 SITe-4 spectrograms, we derived a mean radial velocity of
km s-1 for
Aqr. The uncertainty in the individual
spectrum measurements averages 1.9 km s-1. Abt & Biggs (1972) list
values between -15 and -20 km s-1 while Duflot et al. (1995) give
-16 km s-1 based on 21 values and Grenier et al. (1999) -15.5 km s-1
while Hill (1995) finds -8.6 km s-1. One of our values agrees with Hill's
while the others with those of other studies. This suggests
Aqr is
a radial velocity variable.
From 17 spectrograms, we found a mean radial velocity of
km
s-1 for
And with the uncertainities in the individual values of
order 1 km s-1. Abt & Biggs (1972) give values betwen 0 and -30 km s-1 while Duflot et al. (1995) give -0.5 km s-1.
Two possible ways to detect the presence of a companion would be to look for strong lines in the red and examine high quality optical spectrophotometry. Either would permit estimates of the effects of the companions on our analyses, which we anticipate will be small.
Table 1: Radial velocity measurements.
Table 2 lists our effective temperature and surface gravity
estimates with the last values for each star being those adopted.
We began with the calibration algorithm of Napiwotzki et al.
(1993) and the homogeneous
data of Hauck & Mermilliod
(1998). The uncertainties are about
150 K and
0.2
dex (Lemke 1989). To refine these values we calculated synthetic
spectra of the H
regions from ATLAS9 LTE plane parallel
model atmospheres (Kurucz 1993) with Program SYNTHE (Kurucz &
Avrett 1981) as well as the predicted fluxes with ATLAS9 for
comparison with the observations which are from Adelman et al. (1980) for
And and Schild et al. (1971) as
recalibrated by Breger (1976) with the Hayes & Latham (1975)
calibration of Vega for
Aqr. As the resulting model
for the latter star did not yield equal mean abundances from Fe I
and Fe II lines, we accepted a good, but a slightly less perfect
fit to the spectrophotometry and H
profile resulting in
derived mean abundances from Fe I and Fe II lines which were close
to agreement.
For
Del, which lacks published spectrophotometry, we corrected the
effective temperature as did Adelman et al. (2002). To check the surface gravity
value we compared the observed H
profile with that calculated
using an ATLAS9 model with the corrected photometric values and found that they
were in good agreement.
For
And we used spectrophometry from Wolff et al. (1968) as
recalibrated by Breger (1976) with the Hayes & Latham (1975) calibration of
Vega. The adopted effective temperature is about 250 K less than the
photometric value.
Hill (1995) finds by comparison
K and
for
And and
K and
for
Aqr. For
And these values differ from ours
by 40 K and 0.05 dex, but for
Aqr these differences are 420 K and -0.11 dex. Thus, the derived abundances values
between these studies should be somewhat discrepant for this
reason alone for the latter star.
Table 2: Effective temperature and surface gravity determinations.
Table 3: Microturbulence determinations from Fe I and Fe II lines.
The metal abundances were determined using program WIDTH9 (Kurucz 1993) with
metal line damping constants from Kurucz & Bell (1995) or semi-classical
approximations in their absence. Abundances from Fe I and II lines were
derived for a range of possible microturbulences whose values given in Table 3
result in the derived abundances being independent of the equivalent widths ()
or having a minimal scatter about the mean (
)
(Blackwell et al. 1982). As the microturbulence for
And was found
using models with
km s-1, resulted in a value of 3.6 km s-1,
we changed to the use of a model calculated with the same effective temperature
and surface gravity but with a 4 km s-1 microturbulence. This resulted
in derived Fe abundances with values of 0.01 to 0.03 dex smaller.
We assumed that the helium abundances were solar for both
And and
Aqr for which we do not see any He I lines. Thus to convert their
values to
H values -0.04 dex were added. A
value
is the number density of a specific element N relative to the total density of
all species while a N/H value is the number density relative to hydrogren.
For
Del and
And, their helium abundances (Table 4) were found by comparing
the line profiles with theoretical predictions calculated using programs
SYNSPEC (Hubeny et al. 1994) which were convolved with the rotational velocity
and the instrumental profile. The average values show that
Del and
And have solar He/H ratios.
Table 4: He/H determinations.
Table 6:
Comparison of derived and solar abundances as H.
Table 5, the analyses of the metal line spectra, contains for each line the multiplet number (Moore 1945), the laboratory wavelength, the logarithm of the gf-value and its source, the equivalent width in mÅ as observed, and the deduced abundance. Source references are given at the end of this table. Letters are used in place of multiplet numbers to indicate sources other than Moore (1945): D = Dworetsky (1971) and J = Johansson (1978).
This study's abundances are compared with those of the Sun
(Grevesse et al. 1996) in Table 6. For
And, that the derived abundances for the
light elements tend to be close to solar and those for Fe and heavier species
are greater than solar suggests that this star might be a fast rotating Am
star. The results from Mn II and Zn I lines should be considered tentative.
For the other 12 atomic species (with mean values used for Mg I and II,
Ca I and II, Cr I and II, Fe I and II, and Ni I and II lines), the mean value
for the abundances with respect to solar is
dex.
The mean of 7 metallic elements based on 2 or more lines of
Del
relative to solar is
which is solar. Of these elements only Ni
is underabundant. Of the elements whose abundances are based on single lines,
C, O, Ca, and Ti are solar, N and Al are underabundant, and Sr is overabundant.
These all require confirmation as well as the Ni value. On the whole, the
abundance pattern is best considered as solar.
For
Aqr the results for 13 atomic species (with the mean value used
for Ca I and II, Cr I and II, and Fe I and II lines) is
dex.
Most notably both Al and Sr appear to be quite underabundant. Both results
are somewhat dependent on the adopted microturbulence. Still it appears that
Aqr has abundances for the most part which are close to solar.
The mean abundance of 10 elements for
And relative to solar is
revealing a tendency to be slightly metal poor. Ca is the
most underabundant relative to solar. That the He abundance is solar excludes
the possibility of its belonging to many of the peculiar classes near A0.
Clarification of its status is hampered by its relatively high rotation that
makes it difficult to obtain the abundances of other species which would be
expected to be found in sharp-lined stars of similar effective temperature and
surface gravity.
Table 7 compares the values found for
And and
Aqr by Hill
(1995) with this study. We include in the table values for Mg II
4481 that are probably too large, are marked uncertain, and not used
further in this comparison. In addition we markedly disagree with the Sr
abundances of
And. The mean discrepancy (Hill - this study) for
And (9 species, Mg and Sr not included) is
and for
Aqr (10 species) is
dex. For the latter star,
corrections for the differences in the adopted effective temperature would
ease many, but not all of the discrepancies of which that of Ca is the most
serious. Correcting for the temperature discrepancy will make our values more
metal-rich while the surface gravity discrepancy will tend to reduce the
values for the singly-ionized species. We in fact used spectra which covered
parts of three of Hill's four regions, but did not necessarily use the same
spectral features. That Hill was able to deduce the abundances of additional
species indicates that spectral synthesis studies have an advantage over the
fine analysis approach. The discrepancy in the effective temperature
determinations may reflect the possibility that the companion to
Aqr makes a small contribution to the visible light of the system.
That our values tend to be close to Hill's despite the difference in techniques
indicates that our goal of reasonably good initial abundance estimates has been
achieved for
And and
Aqr and by inference for the other two
stars. Spectrum synthesis techniques depend on the underlying template of lines
and their atomic data. If this data is of sufficient quality, then this technique
can produce high quality results even for stars which show some rotation. Any
template must be tested upon high signal-to-noise, high dispersion spectra of
several sharp-lined stars which cover the range of abundances, surface
gravities, and effective temperatures expected in the faster rotating stars.
Table 7:
Comparison of the derived abundances (H).
Acknowledgements
This research was supported in part by the Research Fund of the University of Istanbul, project numbers BA-47/1204200. SJA and AFG thank Dr. James E. Hesser, Director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory for the observing time. SJA's contribution to this paper was supported in part by grants from The Citadel Foundation and AFG's contribution by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. We acknowledge the useful comments of Dr. F. Spite.