High resolution spectroscopy of HD 207538 from Far-UV (FUSE) to Visible (SARG-TNG)

Abstract

We present a detailed study of the suspected Chemically Peculiar star HD 207538 based on high resolution spec- troscopy in the far Ultraviolet (1000-3350 A) and visible (4600-7000 A) ranges. The stellar abundance synthesis analysis was performed by using Kurucz's codes ATLAS9 and SYNTHE to compute the atmospheric model and the synthetic spectrum respectively. Observations were obtained with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer ,t heInternational Ultraviolet Explorersatellites whereas the optical spectrum was collected with the ground-based Telescopio Nazionale Galileotelescope. With our analysis we refine the value of the rotational velocity to ve sin i = 42 3k m s 1 and the microturbulence velocity to = 8 1k m s 1 . The stellar abundances inferred in this study show that C, N, O, Al, Si, P, S and Mn are compatible with the standard solar abundances, within the experimental errors. On the other hand, Fe, Ni and Zn are definitively underabundant. We also show that the helium content is comparable to the typical abundance of B-type stars. Because this spectrum is rich in stellar and interstellar features, we computed simultaneously a synthetic spectrum of the stellar and interstellar lines in order to disentangle the dierent absorption contributions. We thus also determined the column densi- ties of several interstellar elements (Feii ,N i ,P ii ,H i ,H 2, HD, CO, Cli and Ari) present in the gas in front of the star. Although several components are present along this sightline, our results suggest the presence of some translucent interstellar gas among the diuse components. With this work, we demonstrate that it is possible to perform a stellar spectroscopic analysis from the far-UV to visible spectral range, with consistent results in both ranges within errors, based on one single atmosphere model.