Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-03-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted to ApJL
Scientific paper
10.1086/518031
We present an abundance analysis for the extremely metal poor star HE1424-0241 based on high dispersion spectra from HIRES at Keck. This star is a giant on the lower red giant branch with [Fe/H] ~ -4.0 dex. Relative to Fe, HE1424-0241 has normal Mg, but it shows a very large deficiency of Si, with epsilon(Si)/epsilon(Fe) ~ 1/10 and epsilon(Si)/epsilon(Mg) ~ 1/25 that of all previously known extremely metal poor giants or dwarfs. It also has a moderately large deficiency of Ca and a smaller deficit of Ti, combined with enhanced Mn and Co and normal or low C. We suggest that in HE1424-0241 we see the effect of a very small number of contributing supernovae, and that the SNII contributing to the chemical inventory of HE1424-0241 were biased in progenitor mass or in explosion characteristics so as to reproduce its abnormal extremely low Si/Mg ratio. HE1424-0241 shows a deficiency of the explosive alpha-burning elements Si, Ca and Ti coupled with a ratio [Mg/Fe] normal for EMP stars; Mg is produced via hydrostatic alpha-burning. The latest models of nucleosynthesis in SNII fail to reproduce the abundance ratios seen in HE1424-0241 for any combination of the parameter space of core-collapse explosions they explore.
Christlieb Norbert
Cohen Judith Gamora
McWilliam Andrew
Melendez Jorge
Reimers Dieter
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