Astron. Astrophys. 321, L17-L20 (1997)

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Craig Wheeler for bringing the star to our attention, to Guillermo Gonzalez for a spectrum of Sakurai's object, and to Jim MacDonald and Icko Iben for helpful comments. Nikolai Piskunov and Sveneric Johansson are thanked for help with the hydrogen profiles and atomic data, and V.P. Arkhipova and V.P. Goranskij for photometric information. Financial support from the Swedish Natural Research Council, NSF (grant AST93-15124) and the Robert A. Welch Foundation of Houston, Texas is acknowledged. The analysis has made use of the VALD database. The referee Simon Jeffery is thanked for helpful comments.

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