On the solar abundance of indium

Vitas, N.; Vince, I.; Lugaro, M.; Andriyenko, O.; Gošić, M.; Rutten, R. J.
Bibliographical reference

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 384, Issue 1, pp. 370-375.

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2008
Number of authors
6
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0
Citations
13
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12
Description
The generally adopted value for the solar abundance of indium is over six times higher than the meteoritic value. We address this discrepancy through numerical synthesis of the 451.13-nm line on which all indium abundance studies are based, both for the quiet Sun and the sunspot umbra spectrum, employing standard atmosphere models and accounting for hyperfine structure and Zeeman splitting in detail. The results, as well as a re-appraisal of indium nucleosynthesis, suggest that the solar indium abundance is close to the meteoritic value, and that some unidentified ion line causes the 451.13-nm feature in the quiet-Sun spectrum.