Abundance analysis of stars hosting gas-rich debris disks
arXiv:2503.03614 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202452840
Abstract
Accretion from protoplanetary or debris disks can contaminate the stellar photosphere, which is detectable in stars with radiative envelopes due to relatively slower photospheric mixing. The contaminated photosphere reflects ongoing disk processes, detectable through stellar spectroscopy. We investigate the composition of six gas-rich debris disk-hosting A-type stars to understand possible links with their debris disk or earlier accretion stages. We used archival spectra to estimate the stellar parameters and abundances of our sample. We also estimated the stellar photospheric accretion contamination parameter, fph which indicates the fraction of accreting material on the stellar photosphere. The oxygen abundance in intermediate-mass stars decreases with age until the debris disk stage (< 20 Myr). The downward trend could result from H2O ice accumulating in dust traps or the formation of hydrated asteroids in the protoplanetary disk, locking oxygen in solids and reducing its accretion onto the star. All stars have similar volatile abundances (C, O), but HD 110058 and HD 32297 show refractory depleted abundances. The near-zero fph values in the six stars suggest that any currently accreted gas would not overwhelm mixing in the photosphere and would not impact the observed composition. The refractory depleted abundances in HD 110058 and HD 32297 suggest residual, or even chronic, accretion contamination from their earlier protoplanetary stages when the accretion rates were about five orders of magnitude higher. For HD 110058, with the highest refractory depletion, we estimated a lower limit on its earlier protoplanetary accretion rate of 9 x 10^(-8) Msun/yr, similar to other Herbig stars and equal to the Herbig star - HD 100546. This supports our hypothesis that refractory depletion in HD 110058 originates from a prior phase of higher accretion of dust-poor material.
arXiv commentAccepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, 11 pages (+7 pages in References and Appendices), 8 figures (+1 figure in Appendix), 5 tables (+5 tables in Appendix)
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