Detailed Abundances for 28 Metal-poor Stars: Stellar Relics in the Milky Way

Details Detailed Abundances for 28 Metal-poor Stars: Stellar Relics in the Milky Way Detailed Abundances for 28 Metal-poor Stars: Stellar Relics in the Milky Way

2008-04-08

arxiv.org/abs/0804.1370v2

Astrophys.J.681:1524-1556,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

48 pages, 30 figures, 17 tables. Updated to ApJ version. Multiple typos and errors fixed

Scientific paper

10.1086/588811

We present the results of an abundance analysis for a sample of stars with $-4<$[Fe/H]$<-2$. The data were obtained with the HIRES spectrograph at Keck Observatory. The set includes 28 stars, with effective temperature ranging from 4800 to 6600 K. For 13 stars with [Fe/H]$<-2.6$, including nine with [Fe/H]$<-3.0$ and one with [Fe/H]$=-4.0$, these are the first reported detailed abundances. For the most metal-poor star in our sample, CS 30336-049, we measure an abundance pattern that is very similar to stars in the range [Fe/H]$\sim-3.5$, including a normal C+N abundance. We also find that it has very low but measurable Sr and Ba, indicating some neutron-capture activity even at this low of a metallicity. We explore this issue further by examining other very neutron-capture-deficient stars, and find that at the lowest levels, [Ba/Sr] exhibits the ratio of the main r-process. We also report on a new r-process-enhanced star, CS 31078-018. This star has [Fe/H]$=-2.85$, [Eu/Fe]$=1.23$, and [Ba/Eu]$=-0.51$. CS 31078-018 exhibits an ``actinide boost'', i.e. much higher [Th/Eu] than expected and at a similar level to CS 31082-001. Our spectra allow us to further constrain the abundance scatter at low metallicities, which we then use to fit to the zero-metallicity Type II supernova yields of Heger & Woosley (2008). We find that supernovae with progenitor masses between 10 and 20 M$_{\odot}$ provide the best matches to our abundances.

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