- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/698/2048
- Title:
- Abundances of red giants in {omega} Cen
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/698/2048
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present abundances of several light, {alpha}, Fe-peak, and neutron-capture elements for 66 red giant branch (RGB) stars in the Galactic globular cluster Omega Centauri ({omega} Cen). Our observations lie in the range 12.0<V<13.5 and focus on the intermediate and metal-rich RGBs. Abundances were determined using equivalent width measurements and spectrum synthesis analyses of moderate resolution (R~18000) spectra obtained with the Blanco 4m telescope and Hydra multifiber spectrograph. Combining these data with previous work, we find that there are at least four peaks in the metallicity distribution function at [Fe/H]=-1.75, -1.45, -1.05, and -0.75, which correspond to about 55%, 30%, 10%, and 5% of our sample, respectively. We conclude that the metal-rich population must be at least 1-2Gyr younger than the metal-poor stars, owing to the long timescales needed for strong s-process enrichment and the development of a large contingent of mass transfer binaries.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/740/106
- Title:
- Abundances of 4 red giants in Pal 1
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/740/106
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Detailed chemical abundances for 21 elements are presented for four red giants in the anomalous outer halo globular cluster Palomar 1 (R_GC_=17.2kpc, Z=3.6kpc) using high-resolution (R=36000) spectra from the High Dispersion Spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope. Pal 1 has long been considered unusual because of its low surface brightness, sparse red giant branch, young age, and its possible association with two extragalactic streams of stars. This paper shows that its chemistry further confirms its unusual nature. The mean metallicity of the four stars, [Fe/H]=-0.60+/-0.01, is high for a globular cluster so far from the Galactic center, but is low for a typical open cluster. The [{alpha}/Fe] ratios, though in agreement with the Galactic stars within the 1{sigma} errors, agree best with the lower values in dwarf galaxies. No signs of the Na/O anticorrelation are detected in Pal 1, though Na appears to be marginally high in all four stars. Pal 1's neutron-capture elements are also unusual: its high [Ba/Y] ratio agrees best with dwarf galaxies, implying an excess of second-peak over first-peak s-process elements, while its [Eu/{alpha}] and [Ba/Eu] ratios show that Pal 1's contributions from the r-process must have differed in some way from normal Galactic stars. Therefore, Pal 1 is unusual chemically, as well in its other properties. Pal 1 shares some of its unusual abundance characteristics with the young clusters associated with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy remnant and the intermediate-age LMC clusters, and could be chemically associated with the Canis Majoris overdensity; however, it does not seem to be similar to the Monoceros/Galactic Anticenter Stellar Stream.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/465/815
- Title:
- Abundances of Sgr dSph stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/465/815
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy is the nearest neighbor of the Milky Way. Moving along a short period quasi-polar orbit within the Halo, it is being destroyed by the tidal interaction with our Galaxy, losing its stellar content along a huge stellar stream. We study the detailed chemical composition of 12 giant stars in the Sagittarius dwarf Spheroidal main body, together with 5 more in the associated globular cluster Terzan 7, by means of high resolution VLT-UVES spectra. Abundances are derived for up to 21 elements from O to Nd, by fitting lines EW or line profiles against ATLAS 9 model atmospheres and SYNTHE spectral syntheses calculated ad-hoc. Temperatures are derived from (V-I)_0_ or (B-V)_0_ colors and gravities from FeI-FeII ionization equilibrium. The metallicity of the observed stars is between [Fe/H]=-0.9 and 0. We detected a highly peculiar "chemical signature", with undersolar alpha elements, Na, Al , Sc, V, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn, among others, and overabundant La, Ce, and Nd. Many of these abundance ratios (in particular light-odd elements and iron peak ones) are strongly at odds with what is observed within the Milky Way, so they may be a very useful tool for recognizing populations originating within the Sagittarius dwarf. This can be clearly seen in the case of the globular Palomar 12, which is believed to have been stripped from Sagittarius: the cluster shows precisely the same chemical "oddities", thus finally confirming its extragalactic origin.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/839/94
- Title:
- Abundances of solar twins from Keck/HIRES
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/839/94
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The six planets of the Kepler-11 system are the archetypal example of a population of surprisingly low-density transiting planets revealed by the Kepler mission. We have determined the fundamental parameters and chemical composition of the Kepler-11 host star to unprecedented precision using an extremely high-quality spectrum from Keck-HIRES (R~67000, S/N per pixel ~260 at 600nm). Contrary to previously published results, our spectroscopic constraints indicate that Kepler-11 is a young main-sequence solar twin. The revised stellar parameters and new analysis raise the densities of the Kepler-11 planets by between 20% and 95% per planet, making them more typical of the emerging class of "puffy" close-in exoplanets. We obtain photospheric abundances of 22 elements and find that Kepler-11 has an abundance pattern similar to that of the Sun with a slightly higher overall metallicity. We additionally analyze the Kepler light curves using a photodynamical model and discuss the tension between spectroscopic and transit/TTV-based estimates of stellar density.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/530/A15
- Title:
- Abundances of 94 stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/530/A15
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Abundances of Mn, Cu, Zn, Y, and Ba are determined for a sample of stars previously studied by Nissen & Schuster (2010, Cat. J/A+A/511/L10). Equivalent widths of atomic lines are measured from high resolution VLT/UVES and NOT/FIES spectra and used to derive abundance ratios from an LTE analysis based on MARCS model atmospheres. The analysis is made relative to two thick-disk stars, HD22879 and HD76932, such that very precise differential values are obtained.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/889/27
- Title:
- Abundances of 11 stars in Carina II and III
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/889/27
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first detailed elemental abundances in the ultra-faint Magellanic satellite galaxies Carina II (Car II) and Carina III (CarIII). With high-resolution Magellan/MIKE spectroscopy, we determined the abundances of nine stars in Car II, including the first abundances of an RR Lyrae star in an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy (UFD), and two stars in Car III. The chemical abundances demonstrate that both systems are clearly galaxies and not globular clusters. The stars in these galaxies mostly display abundance trends matching those of other similarly faint dwarf galaxies: enhanced but declining [{alpha}/Fe] ratios, iron-peak elements matching the stellar halo, and unusually low neutron-capture element abundances. One star displays a low outlying [Sc/Fe]=-1.0. We detect a large Ba scatter in Car II, likely due to inhomogeneous enrichment by low-mass asymptotic giant branch star winds. The most striking abundance trend is for [Mg/Ca] in Car II, which decreases from +0.4 to -0.4 and indicates clear variation in the initial progenitor masses of enriching core-collapse supernovae. So far, the only UFDs displaying a similar [Mg/Ca] trend are likely satellites of the Large Magellanic Cloud. We find two stars with [Fe/H]<=-3.5 whose abundances likely trace the first generation of metal-free Population III stars and are well fit by Population III core-collapse supernova yields. An appendix describes our new abundance uncertainty analysis that propagates line-by-line stellar parameter uncertainties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/129/303
- Title:
- Abundances of stars in M3 and M13
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/129/303
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have carried out a detailed abundance analysis for 21 elements in a sample of 27 stars with a wide range in luminosity from luminous giants to stars near the main-sequence turnoff in the globular cluster M13 ([Fe/H]=-1.50dex) and in a sample of 13 stars distributed from the tip to the base of the red giant branch (RGB) in the globular cluster M3 ([Fe/H]=-1.39dex). The analyzed spectra, obtained with HIRES at the Keck Observatory, are of high dispersion (R={lambda}/{Delta}{lambda}=35000).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/854/184
- Title:
- Abundances of stars in 3 open clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/854/184
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Single stars in open clusters with known distances are important targets in constraining the nucleosynthesis process since their ages and luminosities are also known. In this work, we analyze a sample of 29 single red giants of the open clusters NGC2360, NGC3680, and NGC5822 using high-resolution spectroscopy. We obtained atmospheric parameters, abundances of the elements C, N, O, Na, Mg, Al, Ca, Si, Ti, Ni, Cr, Y, Zr, La, Ce, and Nd, as well as radial and rotational velocities. We employed the local thermodynamic equilibrium atmospheric models of Kurucz and the spectral analysis code moog. Rotational velocities and light-element abundances were derived using spectral synthesis. Based on our analysis of the single red giants in these three open clusters, we could compare, for the first time, their abundance pattern with that of the binary stars of the same clusters previously studied. Our results show that the abundances of both single and binary stars of the open clusters NGC 2360, NGC 3680, and NGC 5822 do not have significant differences. For the elements created by the s-process, we observed that the open clusters NGC2360, NGC3680, and NGC5822 also follow the trend already raised in the literature that young clusters have higher s-process element abundances than older clusters. Finally, we observed that the three clusters of our sample exhibit a trend in the [Y/Mg]-age relation, which may indicate the ability of the [Y/Mg] ratio to be used as a clock for the giants.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/701/1053
- Title:
- Abundances of 8 stars in the Draco dSph
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/701/1053
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an abundance analysis based on high-resolution spectra of eight stars selected to span the full range in metallicity in the Draco dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy. We find that [Fe/H] for the sample stars ranges from -1.5 to -3.0dex. Combining our sample with previously published work for a total of 14 luminous Draco giants, we show that the abundance ratios [Na/Fe], [Mg/Fe], and [Si/Fe] for the Draco giants overlap those of Galactic halo giants at the lowest [Fe/H] probed, but are significantly lower for the higher Fe-metallicity Draco stars. Using a toy model we compare the behavior of the abundance ratios within the sample of Draco giants with those from the literature of Galactic globular clusters, and the Carina and Sgr dSph galaxies.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/732/55
- Title:
- Abundances of stars with planets
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/732/55
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Precise abundances of 18 elements have been derived for 10 stars known to host giant planets from high signal-to-noise ratio, high-resolution echelle spectroscopy. Internal uncertainties in the derived abundances are typically <~0.05dex. The stars in our sample have all been previously shown to have abundances that correlate with the condensation temperature (T_c_) of the elements in the sense of increasing abundances with increasing T_c_; these trends have been interpreted as evidence that the stars may have accreted H-depleted planetary material. Our newly derived abundances also correlate positively with T_c_, although slopes of linear least-square fits to the [m/H]-T_c_ relations for all but two stars are smaller here than in previous studies. When considering the refractory elements (T_c_>900K) only, which may be more sensitive to planet formation processes, the sample can be separated into a group with positive slopes (four stars) and a group with flat or negative slopes (six stars). The four stars with positive slopes have very close-in giant planets (three at 0.05AU) and slopes that fall above the general Galactic chemical evolution trend. We suggest that these stars have accreted refractory-rich planet material but not to the extent that would increase significantly the overall stellar metallicity. The flat or negative slopes of the remaining six stars are consistent with recent suggestions of a planet formation signature, although we show that the trends may be the result of Galactic chemical evolution.
