2017MNRAS.465.3101J -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 465, 3101-3124 (2017/March-1)
Discovery of a variable lead-rich hot subdwarf: UVO 0825+15.
JEFFERY C.S., BARAN A.S., BEHARA N.T., KVAMMEN A., MARTIN P., NASLIM N., OSTENSEN R.H., PREECE H.P., REED M.D., TELTING J.H. and WOOLF V.M.
Abstract (from CDS):
UVO 0825+15 is a hot bright helium-rich subdwarf which lies in K2 Field 5 and in a sample of intermediate helium-rich subdwarfs observed the Subaru High Dispersion Spectrograph. The K2 light curve shows low-amplitude variations, whilst the Subaru spectrum shows Pb IV absorption lines, indicative of a very high lead overabundance. UVO 0825+15 also has a high proper motion with kinematics typical for a thick disc star. Analyses of ultraviolet and intermediate dispersion optical spectra rule out a short-period binary companion and provide fundamental atmospheric parameters of { T_eff}=38 900± 270 K, { log g/cm/s2=5.97± 0.11, log nHe/nH = -0.57 ± 0.01, E_B - V_ ≃ 0.03, and angular radius θ = 1.062 ± 0.006 x 10–11 radians (formal errors). The high-resolution spectrum shows that carbon is > 2 dex subsolar, iron is approximately solar, and all other elements heavier than argon are at least 2-4 dex overabundant, including germanium, yttrium and lead. Approximately 150 lines in the blue-optical spectrum remain unidentified. The chemical structure of the photosphere is presumed to be determined by radiatively dominated diffusion. The K2 light curve shows a dominant period around 10.8 h, with a variable amplitude, its first harmonic, and another period at 13.3 h. The preferred explanation is multiperiodic non-radial oscillation due to g modes with very high radial order, although this presents difficulties for pulsation theory. Alternative explanations fail for lack of radial-velocity evidence. UVO 0825+15 represents the fourth member of a group of hot subdwarfs having helium-enriched photospheres and 3-4 dex overabundances of trans-iron elements and is the first lead-rich subdwarf to show evidence of pulsations.
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stars: chemically peculiar - stars: early-type - stars: individual: UVO 0825+15 - stars: oscillations - subdwarfs - stars: variables: general - stars: variables: general
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