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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
The spectrum of the supergiant FG Sge has been studied from a series of high dispersion 120-in. coudé spectrograms obtained during the interval 1969–72, thus continuing the work of Herbig and Boyarchuk (1968). The star, of effective temperature about 6500 K in 1972, is cooling at the rate of 250 K yr-1; it is known to have ejected a still visible planetary nebula some 6000 years ago (Flannery and Herbig, 1973). Abnormally strong absorption lines of Y ii, Zr ii, Ce ii, La iiand other s-process species began to appear in the spectrum of the central star some time after 1967 and have progressively strengthened. Present abundances per gram of these elements are about 25 times the solar value. There is little doubt that the atmosphere of the star has been enriched in these elements during the past seven years, but the rate of enrichment now appears to be slowing down.