Sulphur and iron abundances in halo stars

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2002-07-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207163v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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10 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. To appear in proceedings of IAU Symp. 210, "Modelling of Stellar Atmospheres", ASP Conference S

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From equivalent widths of the SI lines at 8694 A, Israelian & Rebolo (2001) and Takada-Hidai et al. (2002) have derived a surprisingly high sulphur-to-iron ratio ([S/Fe] = 0.5 to 0.7) in six halo stars with [Fe/H] ~ -2.0 suggesting perhaps that hypernovae made a significant contribution to the formation of elements in the early Galaxy. To investigate this problem we have used high-resolution spectra obtained with the ESO VLT/UVES spectrograph to determine the S/Fe ratio in 19 main-sequence and subgiant stars ranging in [Fe/H] from -3.2 to -0.7. The sulphur abundances are determined from SI lines at 8694 A and 9212 - 9237 A, and the iron abundances from about 20 FeII lines. S/Fe ratios as derived from 1D model atmospheres are presented and possible 3D effects are discussed. The initial results from our survey do not confirm the high values of [S/Fe] quoted above; instead we find that the ratio [S/Fe] remains constant at about 0.35 dex for metallicities -3 < [Fe/H] -1.

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