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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 652, 期 2, 页码 1554-1562出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/508509
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stars : abundances; stars : atmospheres; white dwarfs
We present a study of the iron abundance pattern in hot, hydrogen-rich (DA) white dwarfs. The study is based on new and archival far-ultraviolet spectroscopy of a sample of white dwarfs in the temperature range 30,000 K less than or similar to T-eff less than or similar to 64,000 K. The spectra obtained with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, along with spectra obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the International Ultraviolet Explorer, sample Fe III-Fe VI absorption lines, enabling a detailed iron abundance analysis over a wider range of effective temperatures than previously afforded. The measurements reveal abundance variations in excess of 2 orders of magnitude between the highest and the lowest temperatures probed, but also show considerable variations (over 1 order of magnitude) between objects with similar temperatures and surface gravities. Such variations in cooler objects may be imputed to accretion from unseen companions or so-called circumstellar debris, although the effect of residual mass loss and selective radiation pressure in the hottest objects in the sample remain dominant.
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