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The physical properties and effective temperature scale of O-type stars as a function of metallicity. III. More results from the magellanic clouds.

Massey, Philip and Zangari, Amanda M. and Morrell, Nidia I. and Puls, Joachim and DeGioia-Eastwood, Kathleen and Bresolin, Fabio and Kudritzki, Rolf-Peter. (2009) The physical properties and effective temperature scale of O-type stars as a function of metallicity. III. More results from the magellanic clouds. Astrophysical Journal, 692 (1). pp. 618-652. ISSN 1538-4357

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Publisher’s or external URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/692/1/618

Abstract

In order to better det. the phys. properties of hot, massive stars as a function of metallicity, we obtained very high signal-to-noise ratio optical spectra of 26 O and early B stars in the Magellanic Clouds. These allow accurate modeling even in cases where the He I λ4471 line has an equiv. width of only a few tens of m A. The spectra were modeled with FASTWIND, with good fits obtained for 18 stars; the remainder show signatures of being binaries. We include stars in common to recent studies to investigate possible systematic differences. The "automatic" FASTWIND modeling method of Mokiem and collaborators produced temps. 1100 K hotter on av., presumably due to the different emphasis given to various temp.-sensitive lines. More significant, however, is that the automatic method always produced a "best" result for each star, even ones we identify as composite (binaries). The temps. found by the TLUSTY/CMFGEN modeling of Bouret, Heap, and collaborators yielded temps. 1000 K cooler than ours, on av. Significant outliers were due either to real differences in the data (some of the Bouret/Heap data were contaminated by moonlight continua) or the fact that we could detect the He I line needed to better constrain the temp. Our new data agree well with the effective temp. scale we previously presented. We confirm that the "Of" emission characteristics do not track luminosity classes in exactly the same manner as in Milky Way stars. We revisit the issue of the "mass discrepancy," finding that some of the stars in our sample do have spectroscopic masses that are significantly smaller than those derived from stellar evolutionary models. We do not find that the size of the mass discrepancy is simply related to either effective temp. or surface gravity. [on SciFinder(R)]

Item Type: Article
Publisher’s Statement: © 2009 The American Astronomical Society. Published by IOP Publishing.
ID number or DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/692/1/618
Keywords: atmospheric nlte-models; blue stars; hot stars; local group; massive stars; spectral classification; spectroscopic analysis; stars: atmospheres; stars: early-type; stars: fundamental parameters; stars: mass loss; stellar models; terminal velocities; wolf-rayet stars
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status: Faculty/Staff
Department/Unit: College of Engineering, Forestry, and Natural Science > Physics and Astronomy
Date Deposited: 25 Sep 2015 18:45
URI: http://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/410

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