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Pristine CNO Abundances from Magellanic Cloud B Stars. II. Fast Rotators in the Large Magellanic Cloud Cluster NGC 2004

  • Authors: A. J. Korn, M. F. Nieva, S. Daflon, and K. Cunha

Korn et al. 2005 The Astrophysical Journal 633 899.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 5.

Top: Program stars (filled circles) and those of the same cluster analyzed by Korn et al. (2000, 2002; triangle and open circles, respectively) in comparison with evolutionary tracks for nonrotating stars of Schaerer et al. (1993). The dashed line indicates the zero‐age main sequence for ﹩Z=0.008﹩. Except for B30 in the blue Hertzsprung gap, all stars fall between the tracks for 8 and 11 M stars. Middle: The ﹩\mathrm{log}\,( \mathrm{N}\,/ \mathrm{O}\,) ﹩ ratio as a function of ﹩\mathrm{log}\,g﹩, as an indicator of the evolutionary status of the stars. The N/O ratio is expected to increase as the stars evolve along the main sequence. No evolution of ﹩\mathrm{log}\,( \mathrm{N}\,/ \mathrm{O}\,) ﹩ is seen on the main sequence. B30 shows an enhanced N/O ratio. The dashed line indicates the mean ﹩\mathrm{log}\,( \mathrm{N}\,/ \mathrm{O}\,) ﹩ of the three program stars. Bottom: The ﹩\mathrm{log}\,( \mathrm{N}\,/ \mathrm{O}\,) ﹩ ratio as a function of ﹩v\mathrm{sin}\,i﹩. No evidence for enhanced N/O ratios is found among the fast rotators. B30, however, is enhanced in N and depleted in O. We note that its low ﹩v\mathrm{sin}\,i﹩ value does not necessarily imply slow rotation. The dashed line indicates the mean ﹩\mathrm{log}\,( \mathrm{N}\,/ \mathrm{O}\,) ﹩ of the three program stars.

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