Calculs de modèles d'atmosphères hors-ETL avec métaux pour les étoiles de type sdO : le cas particulier de SDSS J1600+0748
We present our new grids of model atmospheres and spectra for hot subdwarf O (sdO) stars: standard NLTE H+He models with no metals, NLTE line-blanketed models with C+N+O, and NLTE line-blanketed models with C+N+O+Fe. Using hydrogen and helium lines in the optical range, we make detailed comparisons between theoretical spectra of different grids in order to characterize the line blanketing effects of metals. We find these effects to be dependent on both the effective temperature and the surface gravity. Moreover, we find that the helium abundance also influences in an important way the effects of line blanketing on the resulting spectra: a low helium abundance (log N(He)/N(H) < -1.5) leads to relatively large effects, while a high helium abundance tends to reduce their magnitudes. We also find that the addition of Fe (solar abundance) leads only to incremental effects on the atmospheric structure and, hence, on the model line profiles of H and He as compared to the case where the metallicity is defined by C+N+O (solar abundances). We use our grids to perform fits on a 9 Å resolution, high S/N (180) optical spectrum of SDSS J160043.6+074802.9, this (currently) unique pulsating sdO, that we gathered at the Bok Telescope. Our best and most reliable result is based on the fit achieved with NLTE synthetic spectra that include C, N, O, and Fe in solar abundances, leading to the following parameters : Teff = 68 500 ± 1770 K, log g = 6.09 ± 0.07, and log N(He)/N(H) = -0.64 ± 0.05 (formal fitting errors only). This combination of parameters, particularly the comparatively high helium abundance, implies that line blanketing effects due to metals are not very large in the atmosphere of this sdO star.
stars : subdwarfs stars : atmsophere stars : SDSS J160043.6+074802.9