Sj. Adelman et Agd. Philip, ELEMENTAL ABUNDANCES OF FIELD HORIZONTAL-BRANCH STARS .4. HD 74721, 86986 AND 93329, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 280(1), 1996, pp. 285-290
Studies of 200-Angstrom-long regions recently obtained with a 3000-pix
el-long CCD at the coude feed telescope of the Kitt Peak National Obse
rvatory (KPNO) are used to extend fine analyses of the field horizonta
l branch A stars HD 74721, 86986 and 93329. Spectra of other stars obt
ained both at KPNO and at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory show
that previously found wavelength-dependent equivalent width systematic
s are probably due to how the spectra were measured as well as to reso
lution differences. The derived He/H ratios agree with the Buzzoni et
al. value of 0.075, within measurement errors. Some derived elemental
abundances are found to be correlated with one another.