Membership, metallicity and lithium abundances for solar-type stars in NGC 6633

Abstract

We present spectroscopic observations of candidate F, G and K type stars in NGC 6633, an open cluster with a similar age to the Hyades. We identify 10 new cluster members including one short period binary system. Combining this survey with that of Jeffries (1997), we identify a total of 30 solar-type members. We have used the F and early G stars to spectroscopically estimate [Fe/H]=-0.096+/-0.081 for NGC 6633 and with more precision that NGC 6633 has (0.074+/-0.041) dex less iron than the Pleiades and (0.206+/-0.040) dex less iron than the Hyades. Lithium abundances have been estimated for the NGC 6633 members and compared with consistently determined Li abundances in other clusters. Several mid F stars in NGC 6633 show strong Li depletion at approximately the same effective temperature that this phenomenon is seen in the Hyades. At cooler temperatures the Li abundance patterns in several open clusters with similar ages (NGC 6633, Hyades, Praesepe and Coma Berenices) are remarkably similar, despite their differing [Fe/H]. There is however evidence that the late G and K stars of NGC 6633 have depleted less Li than their Hyades counterparts. This qualitatively agrees with models for pre-main sequence Li depletion that feature only convective mixing, but these models cannot simultaneously explain why these stars have in turn depleted Li by more than 1 dex compared with their ZAMS counterparts in the Pleiades. Two explanations are put forward. The first is that elemental abundance ratios, particularly [O/Fe], may have non-solar values in NGC 6633 and would have to be higher than in either the Hyades or Pleiades. The second is that additional non-convective mixing, driven by angular momentum loss, causes additional photospheric Li depletion during the first few hundred Myr of main sequence evolution.

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