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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 545, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219651
Keywords
stars: fundamental parameters; stars: individual: HD 122563; stars: low-mass; stars: Population II; Galaxy: halo; stars: individual: HD 103095
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Funding
- National Science Foundation through NSF [AST-0908253]
- Georgia State University through the College of Arts and Sciences
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Programme National de Physique Stellaire (PNPS) of CNRS/INSU, France
- NASA through Hubble Fellowship [HST-HF-51252.01, NAS 5-26555]
- Space Telescope Science Institute
- Swedish National Space Board
- (ARC) grant Direction generale de l'Enseignement non obligatoire et de la Recherche scientifique - Direction de la Recherche scietntifique - Communaute francaise de Belgique
- F.R.S.-FNRS FRFC grant [2.4513.11]
- Conseil General des Alpes-Maritimes
- Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur
- PHASE
- Observatoire de Paris
- CNRS
- University Denis Diderot Paris 7
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We have determined the angular diameters of two metal-poor stars, HD 122563 and Gmb 1830, using CHARA and Palomar Testbed Interferometer observations. For the giant star HD 122563, we derive an angular diameter theta(3D) = 0.940 +/- 0.011 milliarcseconds (mas) using limb-darkening from 3D convection simulations and for the dwarf star Gmb 1830 (HD 103095) we obtain a 1D limb-darkened angular diameter theta(1D) = 0.679 +/- 0.007 mas. Coupling the angular diameters with photometry yields effective temperatures with precisions better than 55 K (T-eff = 4598 +/- 41 K and 4818 +/- 54 K - for the giant and the dwarf star, respectively). Including their distances results in very well-determined luminosities and radii (L = 230 +/- 7 L-circle dot, R = 24.1 +/- 1.1 R-circle dot and L = 0.213 +/- 0.002 L-circle dot, R = 0.665 +/- 0.014 R-circle dot, respectively). We used the CESAM2k stellar structure and evolution code in order to produce models that fit the observational data. We found values of the mixing-length parameter alpha (which describes 1D convection) that depend on the mass of the star. The masses were determined from the models with precisions of < 3% and with the well-measured radii excellent constraints on the surface gravity are obtained (log g = 1.60 +/- 0.04, 4.59 +/- 0.02 dex, respectively). The very small errors on both log g and T-eff provide stringent constraints for spectroscopic analyses given the sensitivity of abundances to both of these values. The precise determination of T-eff for the two stars brings into question the photometric scales for metal-poor stars.
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