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Surface abundances of Am stars as a constraint on rotational mixing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2005

Olivier Richard
Affiliation:
GRAAL UMR5024, Université Montpellier II, CC072, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France email: [email protected]
Suzanne Talon
Affiliation:
Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, PQ, H3C 3J7, Canada email: [email protected], [email protected]
Georges Michaud
Affiliation:
Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, PQ, H3C 3J7, Canada email: [email protected], [email protected]
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Abstract

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Abundance determinations obtained from spectroscopic observations of Am stars provide information concerning the transport processes present in these stars. In this paper we have used models of Am stars which include gravitational settling, thermal diffusion, and radiative accelerations for 24 elements. We used a specific model of rotation induced mixing which has reproduced anomalies in other types of stars. For this preliminary study, models of $1.7 M_{\odot}$ and $1.9 M_{\odot}$ have been computed. A comparison of the predicted abundances to the observed ones for the Praesepe star HD 73045 sets constraints on rotational mixing.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

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© 2004 International Astronomical Union