Chemical abundances of fast-rotating OB stars
Abstract
Fast rotation in massive stars is predicted to induce mixing in their interior, but a population of fast-rotating stars with normal nitrogen abundances at their surface has recently been revealed (Hunter et al. 2009; Brott et al. 2011, but see Maeder et al. 2014). However, as the binary fraction of these stars is unknown, no definitive statements about the ability of single-star evolutionary models including rotation to reproduce these observations can be made. Our work combines for the first time a detailed surface abundance analysis with a radial-velocity monitoring for a sample of bright, fast-rotating Galactic OB stars to put strong constraints on stellar evolutionary and interior models.
- Publication:
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New Windows on Massive Stars
- Pub Date:
- January 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921314006358
- Bibcode:
- 2015IAUS..307...94C
- Keywords:
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- stars: abundances;
- stars: fundamental parameters;
- stars: rotation