Abundances in 11 field stars with large metal deficiencies

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Abundance, Chemical Composition, Metallic Stars, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Globular Clusters, Heavy Elements, Iron, Light Elements, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Gravitation, Stellar Mass, Stellar Models, Stellar Temperature

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Equivalent widths from high dispersion spectra in the red region are used to derive abundances of elements from oxygen to barium in 11 weak-lined stars. Values of Fe/H from 1/10 to 1/200 of the solar value are found. The ratio of oxygen-to-iron is found to vary from one to about five times the solar value. Calcium and titanium are found to be deficient in most of these metal-poor stars, confirming an odd-even effect among Si, Ca, Sc, and Ti that has been recognized in other samples of metal-deficient stars. It is found that barium shows an over-deficiency in stars with Fe/H ratio lower than -1.5, as seen in other metal-poor field stars but not in the globular clusters M15 and M92 with similarly large iron deficiencies. Since s-process production of barium probably occurs in stars of intermediate mass, with main-sequence lifetimes of 10 to the 8th to 10 to the 9th yr, this indicates that the barium-deficient halo stars may be older than the globular clusters with normal Ba/Fe ratios.

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