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Oxygen in galactic disk stars: non-LTE abundances from the 777 nm O I triplet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2005

Ivan Ramirez
Affiliation:
McDonald Obs. and Dept of Astron., Univ. of Texas at Austin, ([email protected])
Carlos Allende Prieto
Affiliation:
McDonald Obs. and Dept of Astron., Univ. of Texas at Austin, ([email protected])
David L. Lambert
Affiliation:
McDonald Obs. and Dept of Astron., Univ. of Texas at Austin, ([email protected])
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Abstract

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Oxygen abundances for a large sample of dwarf and giant stars kinematically selected to be part of the Galactic thin and thick disks have been determined from a non-LTE analysis of the O I triplet lines at 777 nm. The abundance analysis was performed using the infrared flux method temperature scale, trigonometric surface gravities, and accurate atomic data. Within this framework, the ionization balance of iron lines could not be satisfied and so we adopted the iron abundances from Fe II lines only given that they are relatively less sensitive to changes in the atmospheric parameters. We show the resulting [O/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] relationship and briefly discuss its implications.

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Contributed Papers
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© 2005 International Astronomical Union