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Jul 2009
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HST Proposal ID #12123. Cycle 18
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Elements beyond the Fe-peak must be synthesized through neutron-capture processes. With the aim of understanding the contribution of massive stars to the synthesis of neutron-capture elements during the current epoch, we propose an archival survey of interstellar arsenic, cadmium, tin, and lead. Nucleosynthesis via the weak slow process and the rapid process are the routes involving massive stars, while the main slow process arises from the evolution of low-mass stars. Ultraviolet lines for the dominant ions for each element will be used to extract interstellar abundances. The survey involves about forty sight lines, many of which are associated with regions of massive star formation shaped by core-collapse supernovae {SNe II}. The sample will increase the number of published determinations by factors of 2 to 5. HST spectra are the only means for determining the elemental abundances for this set of species in diffuse interstellar clouds. The survey contains directions that are both molecule poor and molecule rich, thereby enabling us to examine the overall level of depletion onto grains as a function of gas density. Complementary laboratory determinations of oscillator strengths will place the interstellar measurements on an absolute scale. The results from the proposed study will be combined with published interstellar abundances for other neutron capture elements and the suite of measurements will be compared to results from stars throughout the history of the Galaxy.;
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