Tuesday, November 13, 2012

1211.2388 (D. Shulyak et al.)

Fundamental parameters of bright Ap stars from wide-range energy distributions and advanced atmospheric models    [PDF]

D. Shulyak, T. Ryabchikova, O. Kochukhov
The determination of atmospheric and stellar parameters, being a well established procedure for the vast majority of normal main-sequence stars, turns to be a challenging process in case of magnetic chemically peculiar stars. Inhomogeneous distribution of chemical elements and presence of strong magnetic fields make most of the standard photometric and spectroscopic calibrations inapplicable for this class of stars. In this work we make use of available observed energy distributions calibrated to absolute units, stellar parallaxes, high-resolution spectroscopic observations, and advanced stellar atmosphere models to derive parameters of three bright Ap stars: 33 Lib, gamma Equ, and beta CrB. Model atmospheres and fluxes were computed employing LLmodels code. Synth3 and Synthmag codes were used to compute profiles of individual spectral lines involved in abundance analysis. For each of the star we construct a self-consistent atmospheric models assuming normal and depleted helium compositions and derive empirically stratification profiles of certain elements. The effective temperatures and surface gravities are found from the simultaneous fit to spectroscopic, photometric, and spectrophotometric observations calibrated to absolute units. We show that using advanced model atmospheres and accurate stellar parallaxes allows one to derive stellar radii with high accuracy and which are consistent with those obtained from independent but more complicated interferometric observations.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2388

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