- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/648/A108
- Title:
- Heavy-elements heritage of the falling sky
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/648/A108
- Date:
- 22 Feb 2022
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A fundamental element of galaxy formation is the accretion of mass through mergers of satellites or gas. Recent dynamical analyses based on Gaia data have revealed major accretion events in the history of the Milky Way. Nevertheless, our understanding of the primordial Galaxy is hindered because the bona fide identification of the most metal-poor and correspondingly oldest accreted stars remains challenging. Galactic archaeology needs a new accretion diagnostic to understand primordial stellar populations. Contrary to {alpha}-elements, neutron-capture elements present unexplained large abundance spreads for low-metallicity stars, which could result from a mixture of formation sites. We analysed the abundances of yttrium, europium, magnesium, and iron in MilkyWay satellite galaxies, field halo stars, and globular clusters. The chemical information was complemented by orbital parameters based on Gaia data. In particular, we considered the average inclination of the orbits. The [Y/Eu] abundance behaviour with respect to the [Mg/Fe] turnovers for satellite galaxies of various masses reveals that higher-luminosity systems, for which the [Mg/Fe] abundance declines at higher metallicities, present enhanced [Y/Eu] abundances, particularly in the [Fe/H] regime between -2.25dex and -1.25dex. In addition, the analysis has uncovered a chemo-dynamical correlation for both globular clusters and field stars of the Galactic halo, accounting for about half of the [Y/Eu] abundance spread. In particular, [Y/Eu] under-abundances typical of protracted chemical evolutions are preferentially observed in polar-like orbits, pointing to a possible anisotropy in the accretion processes. Our results strongly suggest that the observed [Y/Eu] abundance spread in the Milky Way halo could result from a mixture of systems with different masses. They also highlight that both nature and nurture are relevant to the formation of the Milky Way since its primordial epochs, thereby opening new pathways for chemical diagnostics of the build-up of our Galaxy.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/570/A22
- Title:
- Heavy elements in old very metal-rich stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/570/A22
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We studied a sample of high proper motion, old and metal-rich dwarf stars, selected from the NLTT catalogue. The low pericentric distances and eccentric orbits of these solar neighbourhood stars indicate that they might have originated in the inner parts of the Galaxy. Chemical tagging can probe the formation history of stellar populations. To identify the origin of a sample of 71 very metal-rich dwarf stars, we derive the abundances of the neutron-capture elements Y, Ba, La, and Eu. The abundances of Y, La, Ba, and Eu vs. Fe, O, and Mg as reference elements, as well as their kinematics, suggest that our sample of old metal-rich dwarf stars is clearly distinct from the thin disk. They could be old inner thin-disk stars, as suggested previously, or bulge stars. In either cases they would have migrated from the inner parts of the Galaxy to the solar neighbourhood.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/35/574
- Title:
- He, C, N and O abundances in planetary nebulae
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/35/574
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The He, C, N, and O abundances in more than 120 planetary nebulae (PNe) of our Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds have been redetermined by analyzing new PNe observations. The characteristics of PNe obtained by modeling their spectra have been used to compile a new catalog of parameters for Galactic and extragalactic PNe, which is accessible at http://www.astro.spbu.ru/staff/afk/GalChemEvol.html. The errors in the parameters of PNe and their elemental abundances related to inaccuracies in the observational data have been analyzed. The He abundance is determined with an accuracy of 0.06dex, while the errors in the C, N, and O abundances are 0.1-0.2dex. Taking into account the inaccuracies in the corrections for the ionization stages of the elements whose lines are absent in the PNe spectra increases the errors in the He abundance to 0.1dex and in the C, N, and O abundances to 0.2-0.3dex. The elemental abundances in PNe of various Galactic subsystems and the Magellanic Clouds have been analyzed. This analysis suggests that the Galactic bulge objects are similar to type II PNe in Peimbert's classification, whose progenitor stars belong to the thin-disk population with ages of at least 4-6Gyr. A similarity between the elemental abundances in PNe of the Magellanic Clouds and the Galactic halo has been established.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/838/25
- Title:
- Hectochelle spectroscopy for 776 Kepler stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/838/25
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The occurrence rate of hot Jupiters from the Kepler transit survey is roughly half that of radial velocity surveys targeting solar neighborhood stars. One hypothesis to explain this difference is that the two surveys target stars with different stellar metallicity distributions. To test this hypothesis, we measure the metallicity distribution of the Kepler targets using the Hectochelle multi-fiber, high-resolution spectrograph. Limiting our spectroscopic analysis to 610 dwarf stars in our sample with logg>3.5, we measure a metallicity distribution characterized by a mean of [M/H]_mean_=-0.045+/-0.009, in agreement with previous studies of the Kepler field target stars. In comparison, the metallicity distribution of the California Planet Search radial velocity sample has a mean of [M/H]_CPS,mean_=-0.005+/-0.006, and the samples come from different parent populations according to a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. We refit the exponential relation between the fraction of stars hosting a close-in giant planet and the host star metallicity using a sample of dwarf stars from the California Planet Search with updated metallicities. The best-fit relation tells us that the difference in metallicity between the two samples is insufficient to explain the discrepant hot Jupiter occurrence rates; the metallicity difference would need to be ~0.2-0.3dex for perfect agreement. We also show that (sub)giant contamination in the Kepler sample cannot reconcile the two occurrence calculations. We conclude that other factors, such as binary contamination and imperfect stellar properties, must also be at play.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/885/74
- Title:
- 1340 Helium rich white dwarfs in the Gaia era
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/885/74
- Date:
- 09 Mar 2022 22:00:00
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of 1023 DBZ/DZ(A) and 319 DQ white dwarf stars taken from the Montreal White Dwarf Database. This represents a significant increase over the previous comprehensive studies on these types of objects. We use new trigonometric parallax measurements from the Gaia second data release, together with photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Pan-STARRS, Gaia, or BVRI from the literature, which allow the determination of the mass for the majority of the objects in our sample. We use the photometric and spectroscopic techniques with our recently improved model atmospheres code, which include high-density effects, to accurately determine the effective temperature, surface gravity, and heavy-element abundances for each object. We study the abundance of hydrogen in DBZ/DZ white dwarfs and the properties of the accreted planetesimals. We explore the nature of the second sequence of DQ stars using proper motions from Gaia and highlight evidence of crystallization in massive DQ stars. We also present mass distributions for both spectral types. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings in the context of the spectral evolution of white dwarfs and provide the atmospheric parameters for each star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/460/1356
- Title:
- Hercules stream K giants analysis
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/460/1356
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- An abundance analysis is reported of 58-K giants identified by Famaey et al. (2005, J/A+A/430/165) as highly probable members of the Hercules stream selected from stars north of the celestial equator in the Hipparcos catalogue. The giants have compositions spanning the interval [Fe/H] from -0.17 to +0.42 with a mean value of +0.15 and relative elemental abundances [El/Fe] representative of the Galactic thin disc. Selection effects may have biased the selection from the Hipparcos catalogue against the selection of metal-poor stars. Our reconsideration of the recent extensive survey by Bensby et al. of FG dwarfs, including metal-poor stars, provides a [Fe/H] distribution for the Hercules stream, which is similar to that from the 58 giants. It appears that the stream is dominated by metal-rich stars from the thin disc. We discuss suggestions in the literature that the stream includes metal-poor stars from the thick disc.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/439/129
- Title:
- HERES II. Spectroscopic analysis
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/439/129
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of analysis of "snapshot" spectra of 253 metal-poor halo stars -3.8<=[Fe/H]<=-1.5 obtained in the HERES survey. The snapshot spectra have been obtained with VLT/UVES and have typically S/N~54 per pixel (ranging from 17 to 308), R~20000, lambda=3760-4980{AA}. This sample represents the major part of the complete HERES sample of 373 stars; however, the CH strong content of the sample is not dealt with here.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/528/A92
- Title:
- HERES VI. Galactic chemical evolution of Si and C
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/528/A92
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To obtain detailed silicon abundances of metal-poor stars, we aim to explore the correlation between the abundance ratios and the stellar parameters and the chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium (ISM). We determined the silicon abundances of 253 metal-poor stars in the metallicity range -4<[Fe/H]<-1.5, based on non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) line formation calculations of neutral silicon and high-resolution spectra obtained with VLT-UT2/UVES.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/574/A126
- Title:
- HeViCS. XVIII. Star-forming dwarf galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/574/A126
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- To assess the effects of the cluster environment on the different components of the interstellar medium, we analyse the far-infrared (FIR) and submillimetre (submm) properties of a sample of star-forming dwarf galaxies detected by the Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey (HeViCS). We determine dust masses and dust temperatures by fitting a modified black body function to the spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Stellar and gas masses, star formation rates (SFRs), and metallicities are obtained from the analysis of a set of ancillary data. Dust is detected in 49 out of a total 140 optically identified dwarfs covered by the HeViCS field; considering only dwarfs brighter than m_B_=18mag, this gives a detection rate of 43%. After evaluating different emissivity indices, we find that the FIR-submm SEDs are best-fit by {beta}=1.5, with a median dust temperature T_d_=22.4K. Assuming {beta}=1.5, 67% of the 23 galaxies detected in all five Herschel bands show emission at 500{mu}m in excess of the modified black-body model. The fraction of galaxies with a submillimetre excess decreases for lower values of {beta}, while a similarly high fraction (54%) is found if a {beta}-free SED modelling is applied. The excess is inversely correlated with SFR and stellar masses. To study the variations in the global properties of our sample that come from environmental effects, we compare the Virgo dwarfs to other Herschel surveys, such as the Key Insights into Nearby Galaxies: Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel (KINGFISH), the Dwarf Galaxy Survey (DGS), and the HeViCS Bright Galaxy Catalogue (BGC). We explore the relations between stellar mass and HI fraction, specific star formation rate, dust fraction, gas-to-dust ratio over a wide range of stellar masses (from 10^7^ to 10^11^M_{sun}_) for both dwarfs and spirals. Highly HI-deficient Virgo dwarf galaxies are mostly characterised by quenched star formation activity and lower dust fractions giving hints for dust stripping in cluster dwarfs. However, to explain the large dust-to-gas mass ratios observed in these systems, we find that the fraction of dust removed has to be less than that of the HI component. The cluster environment seems to mostly affect the gas component and star formation activity of the dwarfs. Since the Virgo star-forming dwarfs are likely to be crossing the cluster for the first time, a longer timescale might be necessary to strip the more centrally concentrated dust distribution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/161/240
- Title:
- High-ionization emission in metal-deficient BCDs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/161/240
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Primordial stars are expected to be very massive and hot, producing copious amounts of hard ionizing radiation. The best place to study hard ionizing radiation in the local universe is in very metal- deficient blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies. We have carried out a MMT spectroscopic search for [NeV] {lambda}3426 (ionization potential of 7.1Ryd), [FeV] {lambda}4227 (ionization potential of 4Ryd), and HeII {lambda}4686 (ionization potential of 4Ryd) emission in a sample of 18 BCDs. We have added data from previous work and from the Data Release 3 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Cat. <II/259>). In total, we have assembled a BCD high-ionization sample with [NeV] emission in four galaxies, [FeV] emission in 15 galaxies, and HeII emission in 465 galaxies.
