The discovery of a solar twin in the open star cluster M67 (Önehag et al. 2011) implies a near-solar chemical composition for the cluster. This study uses high-resolution spectroscopic data of five main-sequence stars in M67 to analyze their abundance of a few key elements and compare results to the solar-twin composition and the composition of field twins (Melendez et al. 2009). The derived composition was also compared to predictions of stellar-structure models including the effects of element diffusion. (Richard, private communication). It is found that all analyzed elements are, to varying degree, less abundant in the five main sequence stars than in the solar twin. With the possible exception of iron, all derived abundances also fall clearly below the diffusion predictions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-169017 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | van den Brink, Nemo |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Teoretisk astrofysik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | FYSAST |
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