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Article Number | A87 | |
Number of page(s) | 11 | |
Section | Planets and planetary systems | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015137 | |
Published online | 16 September 2010 |
Lithium depletion in solar-like stars: no planet connection
P. Baumann1 - I. Ramírez1 - J. Meléndez2 - M. Asplund1 - K. Lind3
1 - Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Postfach 1317, 85741 Garching, Germany
2 -
Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto, Rua das Estrelas,
4150-762 Porto, Portugal
3 -
European Southern Observatory(ESO), Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
Received 2 June 2010 / Accepted 24 June 2010
Abstract
We have determined precise stellar parameters and lithium
abundances in a sample of 117 stars with basic properties very
similar to the Sun. This sample selection reduces biasing effects and
systematic errors in the analysis. We estimate the ages of our sample
stars mainly from isochrone fitting but also from measurements of
rotation period and X-ray luminosity and test the connection between
lithium abundance, age, and stellar parameters. We find strong evidence
for increasing lithium depletion with age. Our sample includes
14 stars that are known to host planets and it does not support
recent claims that planet-host stars have experienced more lithium
depletion than stars without planets. We find the solar lithium
abundance normal for a star of its age, mass, and metallicity.
Furthermore, we analyze published data for 82 stars that were
reported to support an enhanced lithium depletion in planet hosts. We
show that those stars in fact follow an age trend very similar to that
found with our sample and that the presence of giant planets is not
related to low lithium abundances. Finally, we discuss the systematic
biases that led to the incorrect conclusion of an enhanced lithium
depletion in planet-host stars.
Key words: Sun: abundances - stars: abundances - planetary systems
1 Introduction
The lithium abundances of solar-like stars in the solar neighborhood spread over more than
two orders of magnitude, which is much larger than the range of abundances seen for other elements (e.g., Reddy et al. 2003). The Sun, in particular, has a very low lithium abundance compared to many nearby solar analogs (e.g., Lambert & Reddy 2004). Furthermore, the photospheric solar lithium abundance is about 160 times lower than that measured in meteorites (
0.10 dex
,
0.05 dex; both values are from Asplund et al. 2009). This
difference between the current solar and protosolar values is not
predicted by standard stellar evolution models (e.g., D'Antona & Mazzitelli 1984).
The wide range of observed lithium abundances in nearby solar-like stars is most likely due to a dependency between
and the star's age and mass (e.g., Charbonnel & Talon 2005; Do Nascimento et al. 2009; Montalbán & Schatzman 2000; Xiong & Deng 2009).
Lithium is easily destroyed by proton capture reactions in stellar
interiors. Thus, if lithium is transported between the chemically
mixed outer convection zone and deeper lying regions with temperatures
that are high enough for lithium destruction, the photospheric
abundance will decrease with time. Macroscopic transport processes in
the radiative zone below the convective envelope contribute to the
lowering of the surface lithium abundance throughout the main-sequence
stage. This would explain why the photospheric solar abundance is much
smaller than the meteoritic one. We expect an enhanced lithium
depletion in stars with larger convection zones on the main sequence as
well as in stars with a higher degree of differential rotation between
the radiative core and the convective envelope (see below). The
reason is that lithium is only depleted as it moves to deeper and
therefore hotter regions of a star, where the temperature is high
enough (about 2.5 million K) for proton capture (see,
e.g., Pinsonneault 1997).
Recently, it has been suggested that the presence of planets around a
star could affect the evolution of the photospheric lithium abundance
(e.g., Bouvier 2008).
A long-lasting star-disk interaction during the star's pre-main
sequence phase could slow down the host-star's rotation and therefore
increase the degree of differential rotation between the star's core
and envelope. Rotationally-driven mixing is then enhanced, thus
destroying more lithium than in stars without planets because fast
rotators evolve with little core-envelope decoupling. Planet migration
affects the star's angular momentum, which might also have an impact
on
.
Finally, the ingestion of a planet can increase the surface lithium abundance (e.g., Israelian et al. 2001; Montalbán & Rebolo 2002).
The possibility of a lithium-planet connection is subject of ongoing discussions. Recent work by Gonzalez (2008), Gonzalez et al. (2010), Castro et al. (2008), and Israelian et al. (2009) suggests a possible
-planet dependency, whereas Ryan (2000) and Luck & Heiter (2006) find that stars with planets show the same lithium distribution as the comparison field stars. Takeda et al. (2010,2007)
describe the stellar angular momentum as the crucial factor that
determines the lithium abundance of solar-like stars and find that slow
rotators
show an enhanced lithium depletion. Planets could be the
reason for a slow rotation, but they were not able to draw firm
conclusions due to the low number of planet hosts in their sample and
the fact that their use of the star's projected rotational
velocity,
,
instead of measured rotation periods introduces additional uncertainty, since the inclination angle i is unknown.
From a practical point of view, an enhanced lithium depletion in planet-hosts would be greatly beneficial for the search for extrasolar planets, because all known methods for extrasolar planet detection (e.g., radial velocity, transits, or microlensing) are very time consuming. With an enhanced lithium depletion, however, one could preselect planet-host candidates just by obtaining the stars' chemical composition.
In this paper, we derive lithium abundances and ages for a sample of solar-type stars to examine whether there is a correlation between lithium and age as well as a possible connection between lithium and planets. We also examine lithium abundances and ages for the solar analog sample of Israelian et al. (2009), who claim to have found evidence for an enhanced lithium depletion in planet-host stars.
2 Observations and analysis
Our sample consists of 117 solar-like stars selected from the Hipparcos catalog (Perryman et al. 1997) as in Meléndez & Ramírez (2007). They where observed at the McDonald (Robert G. Tull coudé spectrograph on the 2.7 m Harlan Smith telescope; RGT), Las Campanas (MIKE spectrograph on the 6.5 m Magellan Clay telescope), and La Silla (HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6 m ESO telescope) observatories. Our few solar twins observed at Keck (Meléndez et al. 2006) are not discussed here since they are already included in the McDonald sample.
The RGT and MIKE data (spectra as well as stellar parameters) are from Ramírez et al. (2009, hereafter R09) and Meléndez et al. (2010, hereafter M09,2009),
respectively; two stars (HIP 10215 and HIP 79672) are part of
both samples. HARPS spectra for 12 more stars were obtained from
the ESO archive, while spectra for 6 other stars were obtained
from the S4N database (Allende Prieto et al. 2004). One of the objects (HIP 80337) occurs in both the HARPS and the S4N samples
(we use the HARPS parameters, because they have the smaller
uncertainties), so that we have 17 additional stars. The
spectra for these stars were analyzed in an identical fashion as in R09
(see below). All sub-samples contain one or more solar reference
objects for normalization: R09 used the light reflected from the
asteroids Ceres and Vesta, M09 used Vesta, and for the stars added in
this work, spectra of asteroid Ceres, Jupiter's moon Ganymedes, and the
Moon were used. Table 1
shows the specifications of each sub-sample, where the last two lines
describe the additional data from this work. All spectra have a
signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) greater than about 200, which
allows the determination of lithium abundances as low as solar. Note
that three stars in our sample are also included in M09
(HIP 79672) and R09 (HIP 14614 and HIP 42438).
For the further analysis, we use the parameters with the smaller
uncertainties.
Table 1: Specifications for the different sub-samples.
The HARPS and S4N data were analyzed by first measuring Fe I and Fe II equivalent widths (EWs), where a line list of 45 iron lines (34 Fe I and 11 Fe II lines) within the wavelength range from 4445 to 8294
was used. The Fe lines have a broad range of excitation potentials (from
to
eV). The line list adopted is from Scott et al. (in prep.; see also Asplund et al. 2009). To calculate the iron abundances ([Fe/H]) from the Fe I/Fe II lines, we used the spectrum synthesis program MOOG (Sneden 1973) and ATLAS 9 model atmospheres without convective overshoot (e.g., Kurucz 1993).
We iteratively assigned the stellar parameters effective temperature,
surface gravity, and microturbulent velocity by forcing simultaneously
Fe I excitation equilibrium and Fe I/Fe II ionization equilibrium. For a more detailed description see Ramírez et al. (2009). With the method described above, we derived the following mean errors:
K,
dex, and
dex.
Stellar ages and masses were determined primarily from the location of stars on the theoretical HR-diagram (
vs.
)
as compared to theoretical predictions based on stellar evolution calculations (isochrones). We produced a grid of Y2 isochrones (e.g., Yi et al. 2001)
with steps of 0.01 dex in metallicity around the solar value. For
each star, we computed the age probability distribution of all
isochrone points included within a 3-
radius from the
observed stellar parameters. The adopted mean age and 1-
Gaussian-like upper and lower limits were derived from the age probability distribution (e.g., Reddy et al. 2003; Lachaume et al. 1999).
Although isochrone ages of unevolved stars are typically unreliable,
the high precision of our stellar parameters allowed us to infer
reasonably accurate absolute isochrone ages, even for stars as young as
Gyr;
relative ages are naturally even better determined. For most stars
younger than about 3 Gyr only upper limits could be determined.
For these younger stars, we adopted ages based on measurements of
rotational periods (Gaidos et al. 2000; Barnes 2007) and X-ray luminosity (Agüeros et al. 2009) along with the rotation-age relation by Barnes (2007) and the X-ray luminosity-age relation by Guinan & Engle (2009).
In a few cases of stars in the intermediate age region
(2-4 Gyr), an average of isochrone and rotational ages was
determined to improve the age estimate. For stars with very
unreliable isochrone ages we used the activity-based ages by Mamajek & Hillenbrand (2008) and Saffe et al. (2005). Our adopted ages and the methods to obtain them are listed in Table 4.
Table 2: Age and lithium abundance of solar twins in open clusters of near solar metallicity.
Using our stellar parameters as well as those in R09 and M09, we
derived the lithium abundances for all 117 stars with line
synthesis using MOOG. For this purpose we generated a line list from 6697 to 6717 ,
i.e. 10
around the lithium doublet at 6707.8
.
The whole wavelength range was synthesized with MOOG,
where hyperfine splitting and the Li-doublet were taken into account.
Knowing the basic stellar parameters, we were able to fit the lithium
line including the effects of the projected rotational velocity
and the microturbulent and macroturbulent velocities. We derived lithium abundances with a mean error of
dex for stars in which the lithium doublet was detected. Our mean of all solar spectra is
0.04 dex.
Initially, we derived Li abundances assuming line formation in LTE
(local thermal equilibrium), in 1D, hydrostatic, plane parallel
ATLAS 9 model atmospheres. Abundance corrections were thereafter
applied to account for departures from LTE in the formation of the
Li resonance line. The non-LTE modeling procedure is the same as
described in Lind et al. (2009),
but extended to cover also super-solar metallicities. For our
sample stars, the abundance corrections range from -0.03 dex to
+0.08 dex, depending on the lithium line strength and exact
stellar parameters. In stars for which the equivalent width of the
lithium line is below m
,
over-ionization of neutral lithium results in positive abundances
corrections, increasing with increasing metallicity and decreasing
effective temperature. When the line starts to become saturated,
increased photon losses pushes the statistical equilibrium in the
opposite direction, i.e. into over-recombination, resulting in
negative corrections for some stars (see Lind et al. 2009,
for more details). The non-LTE corrections are very small in comparison
to the full range covered in lithium abundance, and hence the
qualitative results of this study are the same for lithium abundances
inferred in LTE and non-LTE. Note that the NLTE corrections are
computed using MARCS models (Gustafsson et al. 2008). Our NLTE corrected solar lithium abundance is 1.07
0.04, in good agreement with the 3D-NLTE estimate by Asplund et al. (2009).
Our adopted stellar parameters and derived LTE and non-LTE lithium abundances are given in Table 4. Figure 1 shows the good agreement between the three observational sub-samples, which reduces errors introduced by inhomogeneous data processing and therefore makes the analysis more reliable. It also is a proof of the consistently good quality of the data.
We have also considered the lithium abundances of solar twins from 8 open clusters as listed in Table 2. Data are from the compilation by Sestito & Randich (2005) as shown in Table 2 with updated data for M 67 by Pasquini et al. (2008). The age for M 67 is taken from VandenBerg et al. (2007) and Yadav et al. (2008), the lithium abundances for M 67 stars are from Castro et al. (2010).
The clusters IC 2602 and IC 2391 are listed as one here,
because their parameters are basically the same. We only used open
clusters around solar metallicity (0.0
0.1 dex) and with reliable data. The solar twins that we select in
open clusters are stars of one solar mass by definition, i.e. they
are main sequence stars with 1
based
on their effective temperature. We take into account the increase of
the solar effective temperature with increasing age in the selection of
stars from open clusters.
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Figure 2:
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3 Results
3.1 Lithium and age
Using our sample of solar-like stars a clear lithium-age trend is observed (Fig. 2).
The dependency is as expected: older stars show more lithium depletion. The Spearman correlation coefficient is
.
This trend becomes clearer when we restrict the sample to solar twins, as in Fig. 3. We define solar twins as stars with [Fe/H] = 0.0
0.1 and M =
The stars from the open clusters given in Table 2 fit the trend in Fig. 3
very well. This is very important, because the ages of these clusters
are well determined and the fact that they lie in the midst of the
lithium vs. age trend of the field solar twins suggests that the
ages we derived for individual stars are reliable. The Spearman
correlation coefficient for the solar twin
-age trend including the open cluster data is
.
Another interesting thing to point out here is the fact that the Sun (marked with
in the figures) fits the trend very well. This leads to the conclusion
that the Sun does not have a particularly low lithium abundance
compared to stars of similar age, mass, and metallicity.
Figure 3 also compares our observational data with model predictions from Charbonnel & Talon (2005) for different initial rotational velocities of the stars. These hydrodynamical models give predictions for the evolution of surface Li abundance in solar-type stars, accounting self-consistently for element segregation and transport of angular momentum and chemicals by meridional circulation, shear turbulence and internal gravity waves. They agree not only with the general lithium depletion trend observed by us, but it could also explain the relatively large scatter as a result of differences in initial stellar rotational velocities.
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Figure 4:
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3.2 Lithium and planets
In Fig. 4 we plot
lithium abundance against age, this time for a sample of metal-rich
solar analogs. As metal-rich solar analogs we define stars with
0.15 and M =
.
We use those criteria because our sub-sample of planet-hosts is biased
towards those higher metallicities and masses. In this case we
make a distinction between stars that are known to host planets (filled
symbols) and those for which planets have not yet been detected (open
symbols).
We used a two-dimensional Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test to
measure the probability that the samples of metal-rich solar analogs
with and without planets in Fig. 4
belong to the same parent population. Using a Monte Carlo
simulation, we took into account the errors in lithium abundance and
age by choosing random, normally distributed values within each
variable's 1-
environment on the linear scale, which means that instead of
,
we used
,
that is
.
The upper limits were accounted for by distributing the values uniformly between 0 and the upper limit.
We averaged the outcome of 1000 KS tests. This gave a probability
for our metal-rich solar analogs with planets and those without planets
to be part of the same parent sample of 64
;
if we ignore the error bars and upper limits, this probability goes up to
.
This is very important for the further analysis of the data, because it tells us that there is no intrinsic
difference between the two sub-samples. It is highly unlikely that
the planet-hosts and comparison stars are different regarding their
surface lithium abundance.
The age-lithium correlation coefficient for the solar twins is similar to that corresponding to the metal-rich solar analogs (
,
).
However, the shapes of those trends are not identical. In the
range from 3 to 6 Gyr, in particular, it is clear
that for a given age, metal-rich solar analogs have on average lower
lithium abundances than solar twins (see also Fig. 5c).
This is independent of whether the star has a planet or not. The
age-lithium trend in Sun-like stars is thus metallicity dependent. This
metallicity effect is predicted by stellar models due to the deeper
convection zone in more metal-rich stars (Castro et al. 2009) and has lately been confirmed (see, e.g. do Nascimento et al. 2010, Fig. 5).
Note, however, that the mass ranges being compared are somewhat
different, and that this will have an impact on the lithium evolution
of those two samples.
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Figure 5:
Comparison between the sample from Israelian et al. (2009, I09)
and our sample (B10). The solid line, identically drawn in each
panel, is an arbitrary reference line to guide the eye to the
different
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4 Discussion
Recently, it was claimed that planet-harboring solar-type stars show an enhanced lithium depletion and that lithium surface abundances in Sun-like stars do not correlate with stellar ages (Sousa et al. 2010; Israelian et al. 2009, hereafter I09 and S10, respectively).
In Fig. 5, we plot age versus lithium abundance for all 82 stars used in I09 along with the objects from this work (hereafter B10).
With the stellar parameters adopted by I09 we derived the ages for that
sample using the same techniques as for our sample; the ages we derive
for the I09 sample are given in Table 5. Figure 5
shows the results for all stars panel (a), the solar twins
(panel (b)), and the metal-rich solar analogs (panel (c)). We
are using the same selection criteria for solar twins and metal-rich
solar analogs as in Sect. 3.
The agreement between the age-lithium relation found with our sample
and that by I09 is excellent, in particular when looking at the
solar twin plot. This shows that the stellar parameters used
by I09 (which were derived by Sousa et al. 2008)
are essentially on the same scale as ours and therefore the combination
of both samples for this analysis does not introduce systematic errors.
In fact, for the 10 stars in common between our sample and
I09 we find differences of 3
20 K in
,
0.02
0.04 in
,
0.003
0.023 in [Fe/H], and 0.06
0.11 in
(the latter for the only 3 stars with lithium doublet detection).
Table 3: Ages, masses, and lithium abundances for the outliers in Fig. 5a.
In Fig. 5a, ten stars with ages greater than 4 Gyr and higher than average
can be seen above the main locus. Taking a closer look at those
``outliers'', the most interesting fact is that they have a
particularly low surface gravity (
)
compared to the rest of stars. In Fig. 6, we show
vs.
.
The surface lithium abundance on the low-
side does not follow the main track, for which
decreases
with lower surface gravity, which is essentially the age effect, given
that all these stars have similar masses. To exclude the
possibility of systematic errors in the analysis of the low
outliers, we compared the parameters and in particular their ages with various sources (see Table 3).
Our derived ages for these outliers are in reasonably good agreement
with respect to the the values given in the literature. Only two stars
appear to be older than the ages given in the consulted references, but
even that difference is only around 2 Gyr and therefore not big
enough for these stars to cease being outliers. This leads us to the
conclusion that the ages we derived for the I09 sample and the
stellar parameters adopted by I09 (mostly derived by Sousa et al. 2008)
are correct and the high-lithium envelope in the lithium-age plane is
most likely real. Thus, when restricted to a narrow range of
around the solar value,
stars have higher lithium abundances than less evolved stars of similar age.
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Table 4: Specifications for the different samplesb.
Table 5: Sample used in I09. Masses and ages are from this work.
We have examined the results by S10, who claim that there is no
correlation between lithium and age in the I09 sample. The
S10 sample is basically the same as in I09, but reduced to the
60 stars studied in Sousa et al. (2008) because of the high homogeneity of the stellar parameters. We show their lithium-age trends in Fig. 7. The selection criteria we used for the solar twins and the metal-rich solar analogs are the same as in Fig. 5.
However, this time we are using the masses and ages determined
by S10. Although their full sample appears to show no correlation
(Fig. 7a), the solar twin
sample shows a clear trend between lithium and age. Note that the one
planet-host in this sample has a low lithium abundance because of its
old age and not the fact that it hosts a planet. There is no clear
correlation between lithium and age for the metal-rich solar analog
sample in this case, but this could be due to uncertain ages. Since the
solar twin sample includes only 6 stars, we define another sample
of ``extended solar twins'' with
0.1 and M=1.00
.
The resulting figure shows a very definite trend of
with age and only a single outlier appears. This outlier (HD 215456), however, shows a relatively low
of 4.10 (and an almost solar mass of 1.04
).
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Figure 8:
Lithium abundance as a function of
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We have also examined the lithium vs. effective temperature diagram presented by I09. As shown in Fig. 8a, they found that almost all stars with a high lithium abundance (
1.5 dex) have not been shown to be planet hosts yet, whereas
planet hosts and objects where no planets have been found are
distributed quite equally below that lithium abundance, although the
high number of upper limits makes a direct comparison difficult.
In order to make a more robust comparison, we have restricted the
comparison sample using the following criteria: we only considered
comparison objects within a
range in [Fe/H], logg, and
around planet hosts, where
are the average values of the uncertainties in the stellar parameters given by Sousa et al. (2008).
In this way, we make sure that all stars lie within the same
region of parameter space and are not influenced by the age or
metallicity effects we find. Note that we do not restrict the lithium
range, only metallicity, surface gravity and effective temperature.
Using this selection allows for a homogeneous and unbiased comparison.
When we restrict the parameter range covered by the comparison stars as
described above, the lithium-planet connection disappears; as seen
in Fig. 8b, it is
not possible to conclude on stronger lithium depletion in planet hosts
compared to other stars. We stress that this figure is plotted directly
from the I09 data without further manipulation or use of new
parameters.
Three systematic biases have led I09 and S10 to conclude that solar-type planet-hosts feature an enhanced lithium depletion and that there is no age dependence:
- 1.
- at [Fe/H]
0.0, the existing HARPS sample of solar analogs with planets are on average older and therefore more depleted in lithium than non-planet-hosts, but not because they have planets;
- 2.
- at higher [Fe/H], where most of the I09 planet-hosts concentrate, there is a slightly different
vs. age trend such that, at a given age in the 3-6 Gyr range, metal-rich solar analogs are more lithium-poor compared to solar metallicity ones. This is true for both planet-hosts as well as single stars;
- 3.
- I09 and S10 samples include a number of peculiarly high lithium abundance and relatively low
stars; only one of them is a planet host.
5 Conclusions
- 1.
- In stars of solar mass and solar metallicity, it is clear that older stars have experienced more surface lithium depletion. Both the overall lithium-age trend as well as the scatter that we observe in this sample of stars can be explained by the theoretical models by Charbonnel & Talon (2005).
- 2.
- Metal-rich ([Fe/H]
) solar analogs (
) also exhibit a lithium-age trend, which is different from that seen in 1
, [Fe/H] = 0.0 stars. At any given age in the 3 to 6 Gyr range, the metal-rich solar analogs are more lithium-poor. This is true for both planet-hosts and single stars.
- 3.
- For solar-like stars, the lithium vs age trends for planet-hosts and stars where no planets have been found are statistically identical. Thus, the presence of a planet does not influence the observed surface lithium abundance.
- 4.
- A number of solar-like stars with unusually high lithium
abundance for their age are present in the field. We note that all of
them have relatively low
. We intend to pursue further observational work to better understand this small group of relatively low surface gravity and peculiarly high lithium abundance.
We thank G. Israelian for sending us the lithium abundance data from I09.
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Footnotes
- ... 0.10 dex
- We use the standard notation
, where
and
are the the number densities of element X and hydrogen, respectively. Also, for metallicities we use the common abbreviation [Fe/H) =
.
- ...(Allende Prieto et al. 2004)
- The Spectroscopic Survey of Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood (S4N) data and more detailed information can be found at http://hebe.as.utexas.edu/s4n/
- ... B10
- For consistency, we used our LTE lithium abundance in this discussion because the I09 work does not take into account non-LTE corrections.
All Tables
Table 1: Specifications for the different sub-samples.
Table 2: Age and lithium abundance of solar twins in open clusters of near solar metallicity.
Table 3: Ages, masses, and lithium abundances for the outliers in Fig. 5a.
Table 4: Specifications for the different samplesb.
Table 5: Sample used in I09. Masses and ages are from this work.
All Figures
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Figure 1:
NLTE lithium abundance, |
Open with DEXTER | |
In the text |
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Figure 2:
|
Open with DEXTER | |
In the text |
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Figure 3:
|
Open with DEXTER | |
In the text |
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Figure 4:
Same as Fig. 3 but for metal-rich solar analogs ([Fe/H] = 0.25 |
Open with DEXTER | |
In the text |
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Figure 5:
Comparison between the sample from Israelian et al. (2009, I09)
and our sample (B10). The solid line, identically drawn in each
panel, is an arbitrary reference line to guide the eye to the
different
|
Open with DEXTER | |
In the text |
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Figure 6:
|
Open with DEXTER | |
In the text |
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Figure 7:
|
Open with DEXTER | |
In the text |
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Figure 8:
Lithium abundance as a function of
|
Open with DEXTER | |
In the text |
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