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Be星中的旋转混合:来自MiMeS巡天的Be星样本的氮丰度

Rotational Mixing in Be Stars: Nitrogen Abundances for a Sample of Be Stars from the MiMeS Survey

A. Ahmed, T. A. A. Sigut

摘要:

利用大质量恒星磁性(MiMeS)光谱调查的高分辨率光谱,发现了26颗Be星和16颗正常B星样本的光球氮丰度。使用非LTE等效宽度和线轮廓获得氮丰度,并且使用蒙特卡罗模拟来确定由于所采用的恒星参数、连续统归一化和原子数据中的不确定性而导致的所测量的氮丰度的误差范围。此外,还研究了引力暗化和盘污染对Be星氮丰度的影响。大约三分之一的样本Be星和一半的正常B-型星具有氮富集,这可能是由于这些快速旋转的物体中的旋转混合。引力变暗和磁盘污染的校正并没有显着改变Be星样本的整体结果。B星和Be星样本的平均氮丰度与太阳丰度一致,尽管Be星样本中氮丰度的分散性要大得多。Be星样本中也有相当一部分太阳下的氮丰度天体,这些天体在B星样本中并不存在。这可能指向Be星分析中尚未解决的系统误差

英文摘要:

Photospheric nitrogen abundances for a sample of 26 Be stars and 16 normal B stars were found using high-resolution spectra from the Magnetism in Massive Stars (MiMeS) spectroscopic survey. Nitrogen abundances were obtained using non-LTE equivalent widths and line profiles, and Monte Carlo simulation was used to determine the error bounds of the measured nitrogen abundances due to uncertainties in the adopted stellar parameters, continuum normalization, and atomic data. In addition, the effects of the gravitational darkening and disk contamination on the measured Be star nitrogen abundances were investigated. About one third of the sample Be stars and half of the normal B-type stars have nitrogen enrichments that may be due to rotational mixing in these rapidly rotating objects. Corrections for gravitational darkening and disk contamination do not significantly change the overall results for the Be star sample. The average nitrogen abundance of the B and Be star samples coincide with the solar abundance, although the dispersion in the nitrogen abundances is much larger in the Be star sample. The Be star sample also has a significant fraction of sub-solar nitrogen abundance objects which are not present in significant numbers in the B star sample. This may point to yet unresolved systematic errors in the analysis of the Be stars

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