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Red Supergiant Stars as Cosmic Abundance Probes. III. NLTE effects in J-band Magnesium lines

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Non-LTE calculations for Mg I in red supergiant stellar atmospheres are presented to investigate the importance of non-LTE for the formation of Mg I lines in the NIR J-band. Recent work using medium resolution spectroscopy of atomic lines in the J-band of individual red supergiant stars has demonstrated that technique is a very promising tool to investigate the chemical composition of the young stellar population in star forming galaxies. As in previous work, where non-LTE effects were studied for iron, titanium and silicon, substantial effects are found resulting in significantly stronger Mg I absorption lines. For the quantitative spectral analysis the non-LTE effects lead to magnesium abundances significantly smaller than in LTE with the non-LTE abundance corrections varying smoothly between -0.4 dex and -0.1 dex for effective temperatures between 3400 K and 4400 K. We discuss the physical reasons of the non-LTE effects and the consequences for extragalactic J-band abundance studies using individual red supergiants in the young massive galactic double cluster h and chi Persei
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hal-01972067 , version 1 (20-09-2024)

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Maria Bergemann, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Zach Gazak, Ben Davies, Bertrand Plez. Red Supergiant Stars as Cosmic Abundance Probes. III. NLTE effects in J-band Magnesium lines. The Astrophysical Journal, 2015, 804 (2), pp.113. ⟨10.1088/0004-637X/804/2/113⟩. ⟨hal-01972067⟩
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