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Revised element abundances for WC-type central stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2006

Helge Todt
Affiliation:
Institut für Physik, Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Germany email: htodt@astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de
Götz Gräfener
Affiliation:
Institut für Physik, Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Germany email: htodt@astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de
Wolf-Rainer Hamann
Affiliation:
Institut für Physik, Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Germany email: htodt@astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de
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Abstract

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According to previous spectral analyses of Wolf-Rayet type central stars, late [WC] subtypes show systematically higher carbon-to-helium abundance ratios than early [WC] subtypes. If this were true, it would rule out that these stars form an evolutionary sequence. However, due to the different parameter domains and diagnostic lines, one might suspect systematic errors being the source of this discrepancy. In an ongoing project we are therefore checking the [WC] analyses by means of the last generation of non-LTE models for expanding stellar atmospheres which account for line-blanketing and wind clumping. So far, the abundance discrepancy is not resolved. Further element abundances (H, N, Fe) are determined and compared with evolutionary predictions.

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© 2006 International Astronomical Union