Erbium And The r-Process In The Sun And Metal-poor Stars

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Dec 2007

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #104.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.925

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Recent laboratory radiative lifetimes accurate to 5% for 8 even-parity and 72 odd-parity levels of Er II (Stockett et al. 2007, J. Phys. B, in press) were combined with emission branching fractions from Fourier transform spectra to determine accurate absolute transition probabilities for 418 lines of Er II. The lines span the UV to IR wavelength range from 289.2 to 1984.1 nm. Our gf-values have been applied to refine the solar photospheric erbium abundance and to determine erbium abundances in 4 metal-poor giant stars with enhanced r-process abundances (those with [Fe/H] < -2, [Eu/Fe] > +0.5). For the Sun we derive log ɛ(Er) = 0.96 ± 0.02 (σ = 0.06 from 8 lines). This value is in excellent agreement with Lodders' (2003, ApJ, 591, 1220) recommended meteoritic abundance: log ɛ(Er) = 0.95 ± 0.03.
Combining the new photospheric Er abundance with our earlier study of Eu (log ɛ(Er) = 0.52 ± 0.01; Lawler et al. 2001, ApJ, 563, 1075) yields log ɛ(Er/Eu) = 0.43 for the Sun. The origin of both Er and Eu are attributed predominantly to production in rapid neutron-capture synthesis (the r-process) in solar-system material, 83% and 97% respectively (Simmerer et al. 2004, ApJ, 617, 1091). We therefore applied the new transition data to the spectra of very metal-poor, r-process rich stars CS 22892-052, BD+17 3248, HD 115444, and HD 221170. Between 14 and 21 Er II features were usable in our abundance analyses in these stars. We derived = 0.43 for the four stars, obviously in excellent agreements with the solar value. This work has been supported by the National Science Foundations through grants AST-0506324 to JEL, AST-0607708 to CS, and AST-0707447
to JJC.

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