Mercury-manganese stars
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| definition | Chemically peculiar stars of late B-types. The most distinctive features of Mercury-manganese stars are extreme atmospheric overabundance of Hg (up to 5 dex) and of Mn (up to 3 dex). The origin of abundance anomalies observed in late B-type stars with HgMn peculiarity is still poorly understood. More than two thirds of the HgMn stars are known to belong to spectroscopic binaries with a preference of orbital periods ranging from 3 to 20 days. | ||||||||||||||||
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| contributor | AAS_Frey.Katie original | ||||||||||||||||