High-Dispersion Spectroscopic Study of Solar Twins: HIP 56948, HIP 79672, and HIP 100963

TL;DR

This study conducts high-precision spectroscopy on solar twins to identify the closest solar analogs and investigates the causes of lithium abundance variations, highlighting temperature and rotation effects while confirming beryllium consistency.

Contribution

It provides a detailed spectroscopic comparison of solar twins, identifying HIP 56948 as the closest solar twin and analyzing Li abundance differences with potential rotation and temperature influences.

Findings

HIP 56948 is the closest solar twin among the studied stars.

Li abundance varies among stars despite similar properties.

Be abundance remains solar-like across all studied stars.

Abstract

An intensive spectroscopic study was performed for three representative solar twins (HIP 56948, HIP 79672, and HIP 100963) as well as for the Sun (Moon; reference standard), with an intention of (1) quantitatively discussing the relative-to-Sun similarities based on the precisely established differential parameters and (2) investigating the reason causing the Li abundance differences despite their similarities. It was concluded that HIP 56948 most resembles the Sun in every respect including the Li abundance (though not perfectly similar) among the three and deserves the name of "closest-ever solar twin", while HIP 79672 and HIP 100963 have somewhat higher effective temperature and appreciably higher surface Li composition. While there is an indication of Li being rotation-dependent because the projected rotation in HIP 56948 (and the Sun) is slightly lower than the other two, the rotational difference alone does not seem to be so large as to efficiently produce the marked change in Li. Rather, this may be more likely to be attributed (at least partly) to the slight difference in T_eff via some T_eff-sensitive Li-controlling mechanism. Since the abundance of beryllium was found to be essentially solar for all stars irrespective of Li, any physical process causing the Li diversity should work only on Li without affecting Be.