Bailey, J. D.; Landstreet, J. D.; Bagnulo, S.; Fossati, L.; Kochukhov, O.; Paladini, C.; Silvester, J. and Wade, G.
(2011).
Magnetic field and atmospheric chemical abundances of the magnetic Ap star HD 318107.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 535
A25.
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Abstract
Context. A new generation of powerful and efficient spectropolarimeters has recently been used to provide the first sample of magnetic Ap stars of accurately known ages. Modelling of these data offer the possibility of significant new insights into the physics and main sequence evolution of these remarkable stars.
Aims. New spectra have been obtained with the ESPaDOnS spectropolarimeter, and are supplemented with unpolarised spectra from the ESO UVES, UVES-FLAMES, and HARPS spectrographs, of the very peculiar large-field magnetic Ap star HD 318107, a member of the open cluster NGC 6405 and thus a star with a well-determined age. The available data provide sufficient material with which to re-analyse the first-order model of the magnetic field geometry and to derive chemical abundances of Si, Ti, Fe, Nd, Pr, Mg, Cr, Mn, O, and Ca.
Methods. The models were obtained using ZEEMAN, a program which synthesises spectral line profiles for stars that have magnetic fields. The magnetic field structure was modelled with a low-order colinear multipole expansion, using coefficients derived from the observed variations of the field strength with rotation phase. The abundances of several elements were determined using spectral synthesis. After experiments with a very simple model of uniform abundance on each of three rings of equal width in co-latitude and symmetric about the assumed magnetic axis, we decided to model the spectra assuming uniform abundances of each element over the stellar surface.
Results. The new magnetic field measurements allow us to refine the rotation period of HD 318107 to P = 9.7088 ± 0.0007 days. Appropriate magnetic field model parameters were found that very coarsely describe the (apparently rather complex) field moment variations. Spectrum synthesis leads to the derivation of mean abundances for the elements Mg, Si, Ca, Ti, Cr, Fe, Nd, and Pr. All of these elements except for Mg and Ca are strongly overabundant compared to the solar abundance ratios. There is considerable evidence of non-uniformity, for example in the different values of ‹Bz› found using lines of different elements.
Conclusions. The present data set, while limited, is nevertheless sufficient to provide a useful first-order assessment of both the magnetic and surface abundance properties of HD 318107, making it one of the very few magnetic Ap stars of well-known age for which both of these properties have been studied.
| Item Type: |
Journal Article
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| Copyright Holders: |
2011 ESO |
| ISSN: |
1432-0746 |
| Funders: |
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, DND (Canada) Academic Research Program, STFC rolling grant, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Swedish Research Council, Project P19503-N16 of the Austrian Science Fund |
| Keywords: |
stars - chemically peculiar; stars - early-type; stars - magnetic field |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Science > Physical Sciences |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: |
Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research (CEPSAR) |
| Item ID: |
30633 |
| Depositing User: |
Luca Fossati
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| Date Deposited: |
05 Jan 2012 13:19 |
| Last Modified: |
23 Oct 2012 22:29 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/30633 |
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