Search for tidally driven abundance anomalies in Am stars
Abstract
High S/N, high resolution CCD spectra of 10 Am binaries with different orbital elements, rotation and atmospheric parameters obtained with the 2-m telescope of NAO Rozhen (Bulgaria) were analyzed. We carried out preliminary abundance analyses of these stars and studied the possible dependences of abundance anomalies and [Ca/Fe] on their values of effective temperature, v sin i, orbital period, and eccentricity. There are weak trends of [Ca/Fe] increasing with v sin i and decreasing with eccentricity and orbital period. [Ca] seems to be increasing with effective temperature, and [Fe] decreasing with v sin i and increasing with eccentricity. However we need to study more stars to confirm and disentangle the possible trends.
- Publication:
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The A-Star Puzzle
- Pub Date:
- December 2004
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2004IAUS..224..749F
- Keywords:
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- Techniques: spectroscopic;
- stars: abundances;
- stars: atmospheres;
- binaries: spectroscopic;
- stars: chemically peculiar;
- stars: rotation