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- From: gibson@crisium.geop.ubc.ca (Brad Gibson)
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- Subject: Naive Metallicity Question (units)
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 19:14:14 GMT
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- Here's a naive question regarding units used to signify metallicity ...
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- Does [Fe/H] = [M/H] = [Z/Z_solar] for scaled solar abundances?
- (where M/H represents the number abundance of all elements more massive than
- Helium relative to Hydrogen and Z represents the elemental abundance of
- metals higher then He, by *mass" (not number)).
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- e.g., provided scaled solar abundances, does an [M/H] of say +1.0 imply an
- [Fe/H] of +1.0 and a Z of 0.2 (assuming Z_solar is about 0.02)?
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- I assume the above is true, but would of course break down under say the
- conditions of alpha-element overabundance (like in the recent stellar evolution
- tracks of VandenBerg & Bergbusch, for example).
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- Sound reasonable? Told you it was a naive question ...
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- Brad
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