Lithium and Lithium Depletion in Halo Stars on Extreme Orbits

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2005-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507625v1

Astrophys.J.633:398-409,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

29 pages including 3 tables and 12 figures Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal, for the 1 November 2005 issue, v. 633

Scientific paper

10.1086/444607

We have determined Li abundances in 55 metal-poor (3.6 < [Fe/H] < -0.7) stars with extreme orbital kinematics. We find the Li abundance in the Li-plateau stars and examine its decrease in low-temperature, low-mass stars. The Li observations are primarily from the Keck I telescope with HIRES (spectral resolution of ~48,000 and median signal-to-noise per pixel of 140). Abundances or upper limits were determined for Li for all the stars with typical errors of 0.06 dex. Our 14 stars on the Li plateau give A(Li) = log N(Li)/N(H) + 12.00 of 2.215 +-0.110, consistent with earlier results. We find a dependence of the Li abundance on metallicity as measured by [Fe/H] and the Fe-peak elements [Cr/H] and [Ni/H], with a slope of ~0.18. We also find dependences of A(Li) with the alpha elements, Mg, Ca, and Ti. For the n-capture element, Ba, the relation between A(Li) and [Ba/H] has a shallower slope of 0.13; over a range of 2.6 dex in [Ba/H], the Li abundance spans only a factor of two. We examined the possible trends of A(Li) with the characteristics of the orbits of our halo stars, but find no relationship with kinematic or dynamic properties. The stars cooler than the Li plateau are separated into three metallicity subsets. The decrease in A(Li) sets in at hotter temperatures at high metallicities than at low metallicities; this is in the opposite sense of the predictions for Li depletion from standard and non-standard models.

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