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A study of rare earth elements in the atmospheres of chemically peculiar stars. Pr III and Nd III lines

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We determine the abundances of Pr and Nd in the atmospheres of magnetic and non-magnetic chemically peculiar stars from the lines of rare earth elements in the first and second ionization states. The computations for the magnetic stars take into account the influence of the magnetic field on line formation. We studied the influence of errors in the stellar-atmosphere parameters and the atomic parameters of the spectral lines on the accuracy of abundance determinations. Within the derived accuracy, ionization equilibrium is satisfied in the atmospheres of non-pulsating magnetic and non-magnetic stars (so that abundances derived separately from lines of first and second ions agree). For all the pulsating magnetic (roAp) stars studied, the abundances derived from lines of second ions are 1.0 to 1.7 dex higher than those derived from first ions. The violation of ionization equilibrium in the atmospheres of pulsating stars is probably due to, first, considerable enrichment of Pr and Nd in the uppermost atmospheric layers, and second, a higher location for the layer of enhanced elemental abundance in roAp stars than in non-pulsating stars. Two objects from the list of non-pulsating magnetic stars, HD 62140 and HD 115708, exhibit anomalies of their Pr and Nd lines characteristic of roAp stars. The differences in the rare earth anomalies for the pulsating and non-pulsating peculiar stars can be used as a selection criterion for candidate roAp stars.

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  1. Institute of Astronomy, Pyatnitskaya ul. 48, Moscow, 109017, Russia

    T. A. Ryabchikova

  2. Institute for Astronomy, University of Vienna, Türkenschanzstrasse 17, Vienna, A-1180, Austria

    T. A. Ryabchikova

  3. Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, p/o Nauchnyi, Crimea, 334413, Ukraine

    I. S. Savanov & V. P. Malanushenko

  4. Crimean Branch, Isaac Newton Institute, Chile

    I. S. Savanov & V. P. Malanushenko

  5. Special Astrophysical Observatory, Nizhnii Arkhyz, 357147, Russia

    D. O. Kudryavtsev

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Translated from Astronomicheski\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\) Zhurnal, Vol. 78, No. 5, 2001, pp. 444–451.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2001 by Ryabchikova, Savanov, Malanushenko, Kudryavtsev.

An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/1.1502467.

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Ryabchikova, T.A., Savanov, I.S., Malanushenko, V.P. et al. A study of rare earth elements in the atmospheres of chemically peculiar stars. Pr III and Nd III lines. Astron. Rep. 45, 382–388 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1369801

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