Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2012-02-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
6 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings of The 3rd Subaru International Conference: Galactic Archaeology
Scientific paper
Elemental and isotopic abundances are the fossils of galactic archaeology. The observed [X/Fe]-[Fe/H] relations in the Galactic bulge and disk and the mass-metallicity relation of galaxies are roughly reproduced with chemodynamical simulations of galaxies under the standard \Lambda-CDM picture and standard stellar physics. The isotopic ratios such as ^{17,18}O and ^{25,26}Mg may require a refinement of modelling of supernova and asymptotic giant branch stars. The recent observation of the Carbon-rich damped Lyman \alpha system can be reproduced only with faint core-collapse supernovae. This suggests that chemical enrichment by the first stars in the first galaxies is driven not by pair-instability supernovae but by core-collapse supernovae (\sim 20-50M_\odot). The observed F abundances can be reproduced with the neutrino processes of core-collapse supernovae. As in F, the observations of elemental abundances in small systems may requires further complications of chemical enrichment. In globular clusters the relative contribution from low-mass supernovae is likely to be smaller than in the field, while the contribution from massive supernovae seems smaller in dwarf spheroidal galaxies than in the solar neighbourhood.
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