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2031. Carbon abundances in metal-poor stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/130/2804
Title:
Carbon abundances in metal-poor stars
Short Name:
J/AJ/130/2804
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We develop and test a method for the estimation of metallicities ([Fe/H]) and carbon abundance ratios ([C/Fe]) for carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars based on the application of artificial neural networks, regressions, and synthesis models to medium-resolution (1-2{AA}) spectra and J-K colors. We calibrate this method by comparison with metallicities and carbon abundance determinations for 118 stars with available high-resolution analyses reported in the recent literature.
2032. Carbon and oxygen abundances in FGK stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/735/41
Title:
Carbon and oxygen abundances in FGK stars
Short Name:
J/ApJ/735/41
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present carbon and oxygen abundances for 941 FGK stars -the largest such catalog to date. We find that planet-bearing systems are enriched in these elements. We self-consistently measure N_C_/N_O_, which is thought to play a key role in planet formation. We identify 46 stars with N_C_/N_O_>=1.00 as potential hosts of carbon-dominated exoplanets. We measure a downward trend in [O/Fe] versus [Fe/H] and find distinct trends in the thin and thick disks, supporting the work of Bensby et al. Finally, we measure sub-solar N_C_/N_O_=0.40^+0.11^_-0.07_, for WASP-12, a surprising result as this star is host to a transiting hot Jupiter whose dayside atmosphere was recently reported to have N_C_/N_O_>=1 by Madhusudhan et al. Our measurements are based on 15,000 high signal-to-noise spectra taken with the Keck 1 telescope as part of the California Planet Search. We derive abundances from the [OI] and CI absorption lines at {lambda}=6300 and 6587{AA} using the SME spectral synthesizer.
2033. Carbon and oxygen in 107 dwarf stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/621/A112
Title:
Carbon and oxygen in 107 dwarf stars
Short Name:
J/A+A/621/A112
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report the results from the determination of stellar masses, carbon and oxygen abundances in the atmospheres of 107 stars from the CHEPS program. Our stars are drawn from a population with a significantly super-solar metallicity. At least 10 of these stars are known to host orbiting planets. In this work, we set out to understand the behavior of carbon and oxygen abundance in stars with different spectral classes, metallicities and Vsini, within the metal-rich stellar population. Masses of these stars were determined using the data from Gaia DR2 release. The oxygen and carbon abundances were determined by fitting the absorption lines. Oxygen abundances were determined by fits to the 6300.304{AA} OI line, and for the determination of the carbon abundances we used 3 lines of the CI atom and 12 lines of C_2_ molecule for the determination of carbon abundances. We determine masses and abundances of 107 CHEPS stars. There is no evidence that the [C/O] ratio depends on V sin i or the mass of the star, within our constrained range of masses, i.e. 0.82<M*/M_{sun}_<1.5 and metallicities -0.27<[Fe/H]<+0.39 and we confirm that metal-rich dwarf stars with planets are more carbon-rich in comparison with non-planet host stars, with a statistical significance of 96%. We find tentative evidence that there is a slight offset to lower abundance and a greater dispersion in oxygen abundances relative to carbon, and interpret this as potentially arising from the production of the oxygen being more effective at more metal-poor epochs. We also find evidence that for lower mass star's the angular momentum loss in star's with planets as measured by Vsini is steeper than star's without planets. In general, we find that the fast rotators (Vsini>5km/s) are massive stars.
2034. Carbon and oxygen in metal-poor halo stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/622/L4
Title:
Carbon and oxygen in metal-poor halo stars
Short Name:
J/A+A/622/L4
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Carbon and oxygen are key tracers of the Galactic chemical evolution; in particular, a reported upturn in [C/O] towards decreasing [O/H] in metal-poor halo stars could be a signature of nucleosynthesis by massive Population III stars. We reanalyse carbon, oxygen, and iron abundances in 39 metal-poor turn-off stars. For the first time, we take into account 3D hydrodynamic effects together with departures from local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) when determining both the stellar parameters and the elemental abundances, by deriving effective temperatures from 3D non-LTE H{beta} profiles, surface gravities from Gaia parallaxes, iron abundances from 3D LTE FeII equivalent widths, and carbon and oxygen abundances from 3D non-LTE CI and OI equivalent widths. We find that [C/Fe] stays flat with [Fe/H], whereas [O/Fe] increases linearly up to 0.75dex with decreasing [Fe/H] down to -3.0dex. Therefore [C/O] monotonically decreases towards decreasing [C/H], in contrast to previous findings, mainly because the non-LTE effects for OI at low [Fe/H] are weaker with our improved calculations.
2035. Carbon and oxygen in microlensed bulge dwarfs
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/655/A117
Title:
Carbon and oxygen in microlensed bulge dwarfs
Short Name:
J/A+A/655/A117
Date:
22 Feb 2022
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Next to H and He, carbon is, together with oxygen, the most abundant element in the Universe and widely used when modelling the formation and evolution of galaxies and their stellar populations. For the Milky Way bulge, there are currently essentially no measurements of carbon in un-evolved stars, hampering our abilities to properly compare Galactic chemical evolution models to observational data for this still enigmatic stellar population. We aim to determine carbon abundances for our sample of 91 microlensed dwarf and subgiant stars in the Galactic bulge. Together with new determinations for oxygen this forms the first statistically significant sample of bulge stars that have C and O abundances measured, and for which the C abundances have not been altered by the nuclear burning processes internal to the stars. Our analysis is based on high-resolution spectra for a sample of 91 dwarf and subgiant stars that were obtained during microlensing events when the brightnesses of the stars were highly magnified. Carbon abundances were determined through spectral line synthesis of six CI lines around 9100{AA}, and oxygen abundances using the three OI lines at about 7770{AA}. One-dimensional (1D) MARCS model stellar atmospheres calculated under the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) were used, and non-LTE corrections were applied when calculating the synthetic spectra for both C and O. Carbon abundances was possible to determine for 70 of the 91 stars in the sample and oxygen abundances for 88 of the 91 stars in the sample. The [C/Fe] ratio evolves essentially in lockstep with [Fe/H], centred around solar values at all [Fe/H]. The [O/Fe]-[Fe/H] trend has an appearance very similar to that observed for other alpha-elements in the bulge, with the exception of a continued decrease in [O/Fe] at super-solar [Fe/H], where other alpha-elements tend to level out. When dividing the bulge sample into two sub-groups, one younger than 8Gyr and one older than 8Gyr, the stars in the two groups follow exactly the elemental abundance trends defined by the solar neighbourhood thin and thick disks, respectively. Comparisons with recent models of Galactic chemical evolution in the [C/O]-[O/H] plane show that the models that best match the data are the ones that have been calculated with the Galactic thin and thick disks in mind. We conclude that carbon, oxygen, and the combination of the two support the idea that the majority of the stars in the Galactic bulge have a secular origin; that is, they are formed from disk material. We cannot exclude that a fraction of stars in the bulge could be classified as a classical bulge population, but it would have to be small. More dedicated and advanced models of the inner region of the Milky Way are needed to make more detailed comparisons to the observations.
2036. Carbon and oxygen isotopic ratios for nearby Miras
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/825/38
Title:
Carbon and oxygen isotopic ratios for nearby Miras
Short Name:
J/ApJ/825/38
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Carbon and oxygen isotopic ratios are reported for a sample of 46 Mira and SRa-type variable asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. Vibration-rotation first and second-overtone CO lines in 1.5-2.5{mu}m spectra were measured to derive isotopic ratios for ^12^C/^13^C, ^16^O/^17^O, and ^16^O/^18^O. Comparisons with previous measurements for individual stars and with various samples of evolved stars, as available in the extant literature, are discussed. Models for solar composition AGB stars of different initial masses are used to interpret our results. We find that the majority of M-stars have main sequence masses <=2M_{sun}_ and have not experienced sizable third dredge-up (TDU) episodes. The progenitors of the four S-type stars in our sample are slightly more massive. Of the six C-stars in the sample three have clear evidence relating their origin to the occurrence of TDU. Comparisons with O-rich presolar grains from AGB stars that lived before the formation of the solar system reveal variations in the interstellar medium chemical composition. The present generation of low-mass AGB stars, as represented by our sample of long period variables (LPVs), shows a large spread of ^16^O/^17^O ratios, similar to that of group 1 presolar grains and in agreement with theoretical expectations for the composition of mass 1.2-2M_{sun}_ stars after the first dredge-up. In contrast, the ^16^O/^18^O ratios of present-day LPVs are definitely smaller than those of group 1 grains. This is most probably a consequence of the the decrease with time of the ^16^O/^18^O ratio in the interstellar medium due to the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. One star in our sample has an O composition similar to that of group 2 presolar grains originating in an AGB star undergoing extra-mixing. This may indicate that the extra-mixing process is hampered at high metallicity, or, equivalently, favored at low metallicity. Similarly to O-rich grains, no star in our sample shows evidence of hot bottom burning, which is expected for massive AGB stars.
2037. Carbon depletion observed inside T Tauri inner rims
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/632/A32
Title:
Carbon depletion observed inside T Tauri inner rims
Short Name:
J/A+A/632/A32
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The carbon content of protoplanetary disks is an important parameter to characterize planets formed at different disk radii. There is some evidence from far-infrared and submillimeter observations that gas in the outer disk is depleted in carbon, with a corresponding enhancement of carbon-rich ices at the disk midplane. Observations of the carbon content inside of the inner sublimation rim could confirm how much cpc on remains locked in kilometer size bodies in the disk. I aim to determine the density, temperature, and carbon abundance inside the disk dust sublimation rim in a set of T Tauri stars with full protoplanetary disks. Using medium-resolution, near-infrared (0.8 to 2.5um) spectra and the new GAIA DR2 distances, I self-consistently determine the stellar, extinction, veiling, and accretion properties of the 26 stars in my sample. From these values, and non-accreting T Tauri spectral templates, I extract the inner disk excess of the target stars from their observed spectra. Then I identify a series of C0 recombination lines in 18 of these disks and use the CHIANTI atomic line database with an optically thin slab model to constrain the average ne, Te, and nC for these lines in the five disks with a complete set of lines. By comparing these values with other slab models of the inner disk using the Cloudy photoionization code, I also constrain nH and the carbon abundance, XC, and hence the amount of carbon 'missing' from the slab. For one disk, DR Tau, I use relative abundances for the accretion stream from the literature to also determine XSi and XN . The inner disks modeled here are extremely dense (nH~10^16^cm^-3^), warm (Te~4500K), and moderately ionized (logXe~3.3). Three of the five modeled disks show robust carbon depletion up to a factor of 42 relative to the solar value. I discuss multiple ways in which the 'missing' carbon could be locked out of the accreting gas. Given the high-density inner disk gas, evidence for radial drift, and lack of obvious gaps in these three systems, their carbon depletion is most consistent with the 'missing' carbon being sequestered in kilometer size bodies. For DR Tau, nitrogen and silicon are also depleted by factors of 45 and 4, respectively, suggesting that the kilometer size bodies into which the grains are locked were formed beyond the N_2_ snowline. I explore briefly what improvements in the models and observations are needed to better address this topic in the future.
2038. Carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) star abundances
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/833/20
Title:
Carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) star abundances
Short Name:
J/ApJ/833/20
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We investigate anew the distribution of absolute carbon abundance, A(C)=log{epsilon}(C), for carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars in the halo of the Milky Way, based on high-resolution spectroscopic data for a total sample of 305 CEMP stars. The sample includes 147 CEMP-s (and CEMP-r/s) stars, 127 CEMP-no stars, and 31 CEMP stars that are unclassified, based on the currently employed [Ba/Fe] criterion. We confirm previous claims that the distribution of A(C) for CEMP stars is (at least) bimodal, with newly determined peaks centered on A(C)=7.96 (the high-C region) and A(C)=6.28 (the low-C region). A very high fraction of CEMP-s (and CEMP-r/s) stars belongs to the high-C region, while the great majority of CEMP-no stars resides in the low-C region. However, there exists complexity in the morphology of the A(C)-[Fe/H] space for the CEMP-no stars, a first indication that more than one class of first-generation stellar progenitors may be required to account for their observed abundances. The two groups of CEMP-no stars we identify exhibit clearly different locations in the A(Na)-A(C) and A(Mg)-A(C) spaces, also suggesting multiple progenitors. The clear distinction in A(C) between the CEMP-s (and CEMP-r/s) stars and the CEMP-no stars appears to be as successful, and likely more astrophysically fundamental, for the separation of these sub-classes as the previously recommended criterion based on [Ba/Fe] (and [Ba/Eu]) abundance ratios. This result opens the window for its application to present and future large-scale low- and medium-resolution spectroscopic surveys.
2039. Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/797/21
Title:
Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
Short Name:
J/ApJ/797/21
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We revisit the observed frequencies of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars as a function of the metallicity in the Galaxy, using data from the literature with available high-resolution spectroscopy. Our analysis excludes stars exhibiting clear overabundances of neutron-capture elements and takes into account the expected depletion of surface carbon abundance that occurs due to CN processing on the upper red giant branch. This allows for the recovery of the initial carbon abundance of these stars, and thus for an accurate assessment of the frequencies of carbon-enhanced stars. The correction procedure we develop is based on stellar-evolution models and depends on the surface gravity, log g, of a given star.
2040. Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/509/A93
Title:
Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars
Short Name:
J/A+A/509/A93
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars are known to have properties that reflect the nucleosynthesis of the first low- and intermediate- mass stars, because most have been polluted by a now-extinct AGB star. By considering abundances in the various CEMP subclasses separately, we try to derive parameters (such as metallicity, mass, temperature, and neutron source) characterising AGB nucleosynthesis from the specific signatures imprinted on the abundances, and separate them from the impact of thermohaline mixing, first dredge-up, and dilution associated with the mass transfer from the companion. To place CEMP stars in a broader context, we collect abundances for about 180 stars of various metallicities (from solar to [Fe/H]=-4), luminosity classes (dwarfs and giants), and abundance patterns (e.g. C-rich and poor, Ba-rich and poor), from both our own sample and the literature.

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