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Atomic Diffusion and Mixing in Old Stars. I. Very Large Telescope FLAMES‐UVES Observations of Stars in NGC 6397

  • Authors: A. J. Korn, F. Grundahl, O. Richard, L. Mashonkina, P. S. Barklem, R. Collet, B. Gustafsson, and N. Piskunov

Korn et al. 2007 The Astrophysical Journal 671 402.

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Caption: Fig. 7.

Stellar parameters compared to a 13.5 Gyr isochrone constructed from the T6.0 diffusion model. Helium diffusion corrections to ﹩\mathrm{log}\,g﹩ have been applied to the TOP and SGB stars (+0.05 dex in both cases). The TOP stars have effective temperatures about 100 K lower than the turnoff point, in line with expectations from photometry. The cluster may be somewhat younger than 13.5 Gyr, which, however, has only a small effect on our comparison between observed abundance trends and atomic diffusion predictions.

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