Chemical Abundances of Main-sequence, Turnoff, Subgiant, and Red Giant Stars from APOGEE Spectra. II. Atomic Diffusion in M67 StarsShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal, ISSN 0004-637X, E-ISSN 1538-4357, Vol. 874, no 1, article id 97Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Chemical abundances for 15 elements (C, N, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, and Ni) are presented for 83 stellar members of the 4 Gyr old solar-metallicity open cluster M67. The sample contains stars spanning a wide range of evolutionary phases, from G dwarfs to red clump stars. The abundances were derived from near-IR (lambda 1.5-1.7 mu m) high-resolution spectra (R = 22,500) from the SDSS-IV/Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) survey. A 1D local thermodynamic equilibrium abundance analysis was carried out using the APOGEE synthetic spectral libraries, via chi(2) minimization of the synthetic and observed spectra with the qASPCAP code. We found significant abundance differences (similar to 0.05-0.30 dex) between the M67 member stars as a function of the stellar mass (or position on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram), where the abundance patterns exhibit a general depletion (in [X/H]) in stars at the main-sequence turnoff. The amount of the depletion is different for different elements. We find that atomic diffusion models provide, in general, good agreement with the abundance trends for most chemical species, supporting recent studies indicating that measurable atomic diffusion operates in M67 stars.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), 2019. Vol. 874, no 1, article id 97
Keywords [en]
diffusion, infrared: stars, open clusters and associations: general, stars: abundances
National Category
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-65195DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0b43ISI: 000462738400015Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85064427709OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-65195DiVA, id: diva2:1829633
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