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1. Introduction

This paper presents studies of four sharp-lined B and A stars using spectrograms obtained at the 2.15 m telescope of the Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito (CASLEO) and a REOSC echelle spectrograph, which is on loan from the Institute d'astrophysique de Liége, Belgium, and a TEK 1024 CCD. The cross disperser was a grating with 1200 lines tex2html_wrap_inline1064. The resolution is 0.10 tex2html_wrap_inline1066. The spectral reductions were made using IRAF 2.10gif. From bias and flat fields we obtained a combined flat field which was used to divide the stellar spectra to remove the pixel-to-pixel variations. The extraction was performed with APALL and the wavelength calibration with IDENTIFY and DISPCOR using the comparison spectra. Additional details are given in Paper I (Pintado & Adelman 1996).

In that paper comparisons of equivalent widths obtained with the REOSC and other spectrographs indicated that the REOSC equivalent widths were in some cases too large and in other cases too small. To help resolve this issue we selected four stars for which there are well determined equivalent widths in regions with moderate line blending. As we found that tex2html_wrap_inline1068 contained lines of some important atomic species for middle B to early A stars, we also choose stars for which we could extend published studies.

The Mercury-Manganese (HgMn) stars tex2html_wrap_inline1038 Leporis (= HD 33904 = HR 1702) and 28 Herculis (= HD 149121 = HR 6158) were most recently analyzed by Adelman (1987) and (1988), respectively. Their apparent rotational velocities are 18 and tex2html_wrap_inline1072, respectively. An effective temperature of 12500 K and surface gravity, tex2html_wrap_inline1074, of tex2html_wrap_inline1038 Lep was derived by comparing spectrophotometry and the tex2html_wrap_inline1078 profile with the predictions of ATLAS6 (Kurucz 1979) model atmospheres. For 28 Her, the values tex2html_wrap_inline1080, tex2html_wrap_inline1082 were found using tex2html_wrap_inline1084 photometry and the tex2html_wrap_inline1078 profile.

The A0 V star 7 Sex (= HD 85504 = HR 3906) (tex2html_wrap_inline1088) has nearly solar abundances, but the space motions of a Population II object. The recent analysis by Adelman & Philip (1996) used the homogeneous tex2html_wrap_inline1084 colors of Hauck & Mermilliod (1980) with the calibration of Napiwotzki et al. (1993) to find tex2html_wrap_inline1092, tex2html_wrap_inline1094. They compared a Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) CCD spectrogram centered at tex2html_wrap_inline1078 with the predictions of ATLAS9 solar composition models (Kurucz 1993) by employing SYNTHE (Kurucz & Avrett 1981) to calculate a 200 Å wide spectral region centered at 4340 Å to confirm the surface gravity.

The HgMn star HR 4817 (= HD 110073) (tex2html_wrap_inline1098) was most recently studied by Adelman & Philip (1994). Using photometry as for 7 Sex, these investigators found tex2html_wrap_inline1100, tex2html_wrap_inline1102. In many respects it is similar to the peculiar HgMn star 53 Tau, but it is one of the most He normal members of its class.

For 7 Sex and HR 4817, we could not improve determination of effective temperature and surface gravity. But for tex2html_wrap_inline1038 Lep and 28 Her 20.4 tex2html_wrap_inline1106 DAO Reticon spectrograms containing the tex2html_wrap_inline1078 profile were obtained. When we compared spectrophotometry and the tex2html_wrap_inline1078 profile with the predictions of ATLAS9 model atmospheres we found for tex2html_wrap_inline1038 Lep tex2html_wrap_inline1114, tex2html_wrap_inline1116 for both solar and +[0.2] enhanced models, which are slightly different from those of Adelman (1987). For 28 Her, we used tex2html_wrap_inline1084 photometry and the calibration of Napiwotzki et al. (1993) to find tex2html_wrap_inline1122, tex2html_wrap_inline1124. As the predicted tex2html_wrap_inline1078 profile of a 10900 K, tex2html_wrap_inline1128 solar composition ATLAS9 model agreed with the observations, we adopted this model which means 28 Her is slightly hotter and has a slightly greater surface gravity than found by Adelman (1988). Allowing for the differences in helium abundances between the models and the stars (see below), tex2html_wrap_inline1130 for tex2html_wrap_inline1038 Lep and 3.96 for 28 Her.


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