Abstract
Abstract
Red giants show a large number of absorption lines in both optical and near-infrared wavelengths. Still, the characteristics of the lines in different wave passbands are not necessarily the same. We searched for lines of Mg i, Si i, Ca i, Ti i, Cr i, and Ni i in the
, Y, and J bands (0.91–1.33 μm), that are useful for precise abundance analyses, from two different compilations of lines, namely, the third release of Vienna Atomic Line Database (VALD3) and the catalog published by Meléndez & Barbuy in 1999 (MB99). We selected sufficiently strong lines that are not severely blended and ended up with 191 lines (165 and 141 lines from VALD3 and MB99, respectively), in total, for the six elements. Combining our line lists with high-resolution (λ/Δλ = 28,000) and high signal-to-noise ratio (>500) spectra taken with the WINERED spectrograph, we measured the abundances of the six elements in addition to Fe i of two prototype red giants, i.e., Arcturus and μ Leo. The resultant abundances show reasonable agreement with the values in the literature within ∼0.2 dex, indicating that the available oscillator strengths are acceptable, although the abundances based on the two line lists show systematic differences by 0.1–0.2 dex. Furthermore, to improve the precision, solid estimation of the microturbulence (or the microturbulences if they are different for different elements) is necessary as far as the classical hydrostatic atmosphere models are used for the analysis.
Funder
MEXT ∣ Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Publisher
American Astronomical Society
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics
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