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The Most Metal-Poor Stars. II. Chemical Abundances of 190 Metal-Poor Stars Including 10 New Stars With [Fe/H] ≤ -3.5

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
dc.contributor Frebel, Anna L.
dc.creator Frebel, Anna L.
dc.creator Yong, David
dc.creator Bessell, M. S.
dc.creator Christlieb, N.
dc.creator Asplund, M.
dc.creator Beers, Timothy C.
dc.creator Barklem, P. S.
dc.creator Ryan, S. G.
dc.creator Norris, John E.
dc.date 2013-01-22T18:43:53Z
dc.date 2013-01-22T18:43:53Z
dc.date 2012-12
dc.date 2012-04
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:07:54Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:07:54Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76327
dc.identifier Yong, David et al. “The Most Metal-Poor Stars. II. Chemical Abundances of 190 Metal-Poor Stars Including 10 New Stars With [Fe/H] ≤ -3.5” The Astrophysical Journal 762.1 (2013): 26.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2139-7145
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278866
dc.description We present a homogeneous chemical abundance analysis of 16 elements in 190 metal-poor Galactic halo stars (38 program and 152 literature objects). The sample includes 171 stars with [Fe/H] ≤ –2.5, of which 86 are extremely metal poor, [Fe/H] ≤ –3.0. Our program stars include 10 new objects with [Fe/H] ≤ –3.5. We identify a sample of "normal" metal-poor stars and measure the trends between [X/Fe] and [Fe/H], as well as the dispersion about the mean trend for this sample. Using this mean trend, we identify objects that are chemically peculiar relative to "normal" stars at the same metallicity. These chemically unusual stars include CEMP-no objects, one star with high [Si/Fe], another with high [Ba/Sr], and one with unusually low [X/Fe] for all elements heavier than Na. The Sr and Ba abundances indicate that there may be two nucleosynthetic processes at lowest metallicity that are distinct from the main r-process. Finally, for many elements, we find a significant trend between [X/Fe] versus T eff, which likely reflects non-LTE and/or three-dimensional effects. Such trends demonstrate that care must be exercised when using abundance measurements in metal-poor stars to constrain chemical evolution and/or nucleosynthesis predictions.
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher IOP Publishing
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/762/1/26
dc.relation Astrophysical Journal
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
dc.source arXiv
dc.title The Most Metal-Poor Stars. II. Chemical Abundances of 190 Metal-Poor Stars Including 10 New Stars With [Fe/H] ≤ -3.5
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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