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Lithium Abundances in Wide Binaries with Solar-Type Twin Components
We present high-resolution spectroscopic observations of the Li Iresonance line in a sample of 62 stars that belong to 31 common propermotion pairs with twin F- or G-type components. Photospheric abundancesof lithium were derived by spectral synthesis analysis. For seven of thepairs, we have measured large lithium abundance differences. Elevenother pairs have components with similar lithium abundances. We cannotdetermine if the remaining 13 pairs have lithium differences because wedid not detect the Li I lines, and hence we can only provide upperlimits to the abundances of both stars. Our results demonstrate thattwin stars do not always share the same lithium abundances. Lithiumdepletion in solar-type stars does not only depend on age, mass, andmetallicity. This result is consistent with the spread in lithiumabundances among solar-type stars in the solar-age open cluster M67. Ourstars are brighter than the M67 members of similar spectral type, makingthem good targets for detailed follow-up studies that could shed lighton the elusive mechanism responsible for the depletion of lithium duringthe main-sequence evolution of the Sun and solar-type stars.
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| Discovery of microvariability in normal stars - Analysis of six main sequence stars
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| Constellation: | Cancer |
| Right ascension: | 09h08m27.16s |
| Declination: | +27°32'35.3" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.236 |
| Distance: | 43.917 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | -49.9 |
| Proper motion Dec: | 75.5 |
| B-T magnitude: | 8.941 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.295 |
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