First Stars. III. A detailed elemental abundance study of four extremely metal-poor giant stars

Details First Stars. III. A detailed elemental abundance study of four extremely metal-poor giant stars First Stars. III. A detailed elemental abundance study of four extremely metal-poor giant stars

Jun 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003a%26a...403.1105f&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.403, p.1105-1114 (2003)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Stars: Abundances, Stars: Population Ii, Galaxy: Abundances, Galaxy: Halo, Nuclear Reactions, Nucleosynthesis, Abundances

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This paper reports detailed abundance analyses for four extremely metal-poor (XMP) giant stars with [Fe/H]<-3.8, based on high-resolution, high-S/N spectra from the ESO VLT (Kueyen/UVES) and LTE model atmosphere calculations. The derived [alpha /Fe] ratios in our sample exhibit a small dispersion, confirming previous findings in the literature, i.e. a constant overabundance of the alpha -elements with a very small (if any) dependence on [Fe/H]. In particular, the very small scatter we determine for [Si/Fe] suggests that this element shows a constant overabundance at very low metallicity, a conclusion which could not have been derived from the widely scattered [Si/Fe] values reported in the literature for less metal-poor stars. For the iron-peak elements, our precise abundances for the four XMP stars in our sample confirm the decreasing trend of Cr and Mn with decreasing [Fe/H], as well as the increasing trend for Co and the absence of any trend for Sc and Ni. In contrast to the significant spread of the ratios [Sr/Fe] and [Ba/Fe], we find [Sr/Ba] in our sample to be roughly solar, with a much lower dispersion than previously found for stars in the range -3.5 < [Fe/H] < -2.5.
Based on observations made with the ESO Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory, Chile (Large Programme ID 165.N-0276(A)).
The complete version of Table 5 is only available in electronic form at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.125.5) or via http:/ /cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/cgi-bin/qcat?J /A+A/403/1105

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