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Remarks concerning the masses of horizontal-branch A stars
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
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Studies are underway concerning the masses of horizontal-branch A stars. Hayes and Philip (1979) discussed masses determined for seven field HB stars using gravities and temperatures obtained from spectrophotometric scans. They found a mean mass of 0.6 M⊙ ± 0.4 for these stars. However, there was a strong trend of mass with temperature. In the present study four-color measures of over 150 FHB and BHB stars have been dereddened and plotted in the grid relating (b-y), c1 and log g, Teff (Philip and Relyea 1979). If one calculates a mean mass, again the figure of 0.6 M⊙ is obtained. A more detailed look at the data, however, reveals structure in the distribution of points in the various diagrams. A discussion of this result follows.
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