Bibcode
Schmidt, W.; D'Antona, F.; Montalbán, J.; Kupka, F.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.370, p.982-990 (2001)
Fecha de publicación:
5
2001
Revista
Número de citas
21
Número de citas referidas
14
Descripción
We explore the dependence of {T_eff}'s and colors of stellar models on
the treatment of over-adiabatic convection, both in the atmosphere and
in the interior. We compute main sequence, turnoff, and subgiant models
for low metallicity stars (Z=2 10-4) using as boundary
conditions two new sets of model atmospheres by the Wien group (Kupka
\cite{kup96}; Smalley & Kupka \cite{sma97}; Heiter et al.
\cite{hei01}). In these models convection is treated either in the
Mixing Length Theory (MLT) or in the Full Spectrum of Turbulence (FST)
formulation. We check the dependence of the {T_eff} location of the HR
diagram both on the optical depth tau at which the atmospheric boundary
conditions are fixed, and on the convective model adopted in the
atmosphere and interior. Obviously, full selfconsistency of the result
is obtained only if the treatment of convection is the same in the outer
layers and in the interior. We show that it is not appropriate to use
MLT convection in the atmosphere and FST in the interior; if we wish to
test the effect of changing the l/H_p in the MLT, the atmospheric
integration must be limited to tau =1. We construct isochrones for ages
of 10 Gyr and greater, and transform the theoretical {T_eff} and gravity
values to the Johnson B and V magnitudes. The two sets of model
atmospheres give small differences (up to ~ 0.03 mag) for the B-V color,
a result of the different temperature stratification in the model
atmosphere with FST convection treatment compared to that one based on
MLT. The FST boundary conditions provide relative locations of turnoff
and giant branch which differ from the MLT solutions, and are in better
agreement with the HR diagram morphology of the Globular Cluster M 92.