Abundances of A/F and Am/Fm stars in open clusters as constraints to self-consistent models including transport processes

Abstract

We describe the current status of a programme we started a few years ago to observe a large number of A/F and Am/Fm stars in open clusters of various ages. Spectra were obtained with the AURELIE and ELODIE spectrographs at a resolving power of about 40000 and ratios from 100 up to 500. Abundances of 11 chemical elements have been derived by using Takeda's (1995) procedure. A short review on previous abundance determinations of A and F dwarfs in open clusters and a progress report on the current status of this project are presented. New abundance determinations for 24 A and F dwarfs in the Coma Berenices cluster are presented. These abundance determinations serve to set constraints to self-consistent evolutionary models of A and F stars including transport processes.To search for other articles by the author(s) go to: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html