Near-IR Observations Of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars With SOAR/OSIRIS

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Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...21113109k&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #131.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.960

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We report on medium-resolution near-IR spectroscopy, obtained with SOAR/OSIRIS, of a sample of over 50 Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) stars selected from the HK survey of Beers and colleagues and the Hamburg/ESO Survey of Christlieb and colleagues. These stars are primarily cool (4000 K < Teff < 5000 K), metal-poor objects with previous optical observations that indicate carbon enhancement [C/Fe] > +1.0. The observations are used, in combination with information available from optical spectra, to derive estimates of the O abundance and 12C/13C ratios from the molecular lines of CO, which are very sensitive to oxygen abundances in such stars. The results are compared with abundances determined from high-resolution observations for a subset of these stars. Based the O abundances from CO lines, we revisit the estimation of C and N abundances from optical observations. The origin of the elemental abundance pattern for CEMP stars with s-process enhancement (CEMP-s stars) is very likely to be mass transfer from (now extinct) AGB companions. However, the [C/N] and 12C/13C ratios of CEMP-s stars are very
different from solar-metallicity AGB stars. The [O/Fe] measurements provide additional constraints on the mass of these AGB companions. Another class, the CEMP-no stars (CEMP stars with no n-capture enhancement), could have either been polluted by AGB mass-transfer, winds from massive stars, or early
supernovae. The 12C/13C and [O/Fe] abundances are crucial to distinguish their origin, and they are not easily available through optical observations due to the weakness of the [OI] 6300 A lines.
TCB, YSL, CK, and TS acknowledge support from grant PHY 02-16783; Physics Frontier Center/Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA), awarded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

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