000002012 001__ 2012
000002012 005__ 20160701171657.0
000002012 0247_ $$2DOI$$a10.1051/0004-6361:20066454
000002012 037__ $$aASTROimport-169
000002012 100__ $$aCidale, L. S.
000002012 245__ $$aFundamental parameters of He-weak and He-strong stars
000002012 260__ $$c2007
000002012 520__ $$aContext: He-weak and He-strong stars are chemically peculiar AB objects whose He lines are anomalously weak or strong for their MK spectral type. The determination of fundamental parameters for these stars is often more complex than for normal stars due to their abundance anomalies.  Aims: We discuss the determination of fundamental parameters: effective temperature, surface gravity, and visual and bolometric absolute magnitudes of He-weak and He-strong stars. We compare our values with those derived independently from methods based on photometry and model fitting.  Methods: We carried out low resolution spectroscopic observations in the wavelength range 3400-4700 Å of 20 He-weak and 8 He-strong stars to determine their fundamental parameters by means of the Divan-Chalonge-Barbier (BCD) spectrophotometric system. This system is based on the measurement of the continuum energy distribution around the Balmer discontinuity (BD). For a few He-weak stars we also estimate the effective temperatures and the angular diameters by integrating absolute fluxes observed over a wide spectral range. Non-LTE model calculations are carried out to study the influence of the He/H abundance ratio on the emergent radiation of He-strong stars and on their T_eff determination.  Results: We find that the effective temperatures, surface gravities and bolometric absolute magnitudes of He-weak stars estimated with the BCD system and the integrated flux method are in good agreement between each other, and they also agree with previous determinations based on several different methods. The mean discrepancy between the visual absolute magnitudes derived using the hipparcos parallaxes and the BCD values is on average ±0.3 mag for He-weak stars, while it is ±0.5 mag for He-strong stars. For He-strong stars, we note that the BCD calibration, based on stars in the solar environment, leads to overestimated values of T_eff. By means of model atmosphere calculations with enhanced He/H abundance ratios we show that larger He/H ratios produce smaller BD which naturally explains the T_eff overestimation. We take advantage of these calculations to introduce a method to estimate the He/H abundance ratio in He-strong stars. The BD of HD 37479 suggests that the T_eff of this star remains fairly constant as the star spectrum undergoes changes in the intensity of H and He absorption lines. Data for the He-strong star HD 66765 are reported for the first time. Observations taken at CASLEO, operating under agreement of CONICET and the Universities of La Plata, Córdoba and San Juan, Argentina. Tables [see full text]-[see full text] and Appendix A are only available in electronic form at http://www.aanda.org 
000002012 700__ $$a Arias, M. L.
000002012 700__ $$a Torres, A. F.
000002012 700__ $$a Zorec, J.
000002012 700__ $$a Frémat, Y.
000002012 700__ $$a Cruzado, A.
000002012 773__ $$c263-272$$i1$$pAstronomy and Astrophysics$$v468$$y2007
000002012 85642 $$ahttp://esoads.eso.org/abs/2007A%26A...468..263C
000002012 905__ $$apublished in
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