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Feige 86: Gaia confirms its Horizontal Branch nature

Bonifacio, P.; Monaco, L.

The halo star Feige 86 was considered in the 1960's and 1970's a solar metallicity chemically peculiar, He-weak B type star. Margherita Hack was the first to study its UV spectrum acquired with the IUE satellite. Later studies of this star by Hack and collaborators suggested that, in spite of the fact its iron abundance is slightly above solar, th…