- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/440/321
- Title:
- Chemical abundances in 43 metal-poor stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/440/321
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have derived abundances of O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Ni and Ba for 43 metal-poor field stars in the solar neighbourhood, most of them subgiants or turn-off-point stars, with iron abundances [Fe/H] ranging from -0.4 to -3.0. About half of this sample has not been analysed spectroscopically in detail before. Effective temperatures were estimated from uvby photometry, and surface gravities primarily from Hipparcos parallaxes. The analysis is differential relative to the Sun, and carried out with plane-parallel MARCS models. Various sources of error are discussed and found to contribute a total error of about 0.1-0.2dex for most elements, while relative abundances, such as [Ca/Fe], are most probably more accurate. For the oxygen abundances, determined in an NLTE analysis of the 7774{AA} triplet lines, the errors may be somewhat larger.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/824/5
- Title:
- Chemical abundances in NGC 5024 (M53)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/824/5
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the Fe, Ca, Ti, Ni, Ba, Na, and O abundances for a sample of 53 red giant branch stars in the globular cluster (GC) NGC 5024 (M53). The abundances were measured from high signal-to-noise medium resolution spectra collected with the Hydra multi-object spectrograph on the Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO 3.5m telescope. M53 is of interest because previous studies based on the morphology of the cluster's horizontal branch suggested that it might be composed primarily of first generation (FG) stars and differ from the majority of other GCs with multiple populations, which have been found to be dominated by the second generation (SG) stars. Our sample has an average [Fe/H]=-2.07 with a standard deviation of 0.07dex. This value is consistent with previously published results. The alpha-element abundances in our sample are also consistent with the trends seen in Milky Way halo stars at similar metallicities, with enhanced [Ca/Fe] and [Ti/Fe] relative to solar. We find that the Na-O anti-correlation in M53 is not as extended as other GCs with similar masses and metallicities. The ratio of SG to the total number of stars in our sample is approximately 0.27 and the SG generation is more centrally concentrated. These findings further support that M53 might be a mostly FG cluster and could give further insight into how GCs formed the light element abundance patterns we observe in them today.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/360/509
- Title:
- Chemical abundances in 7 red giants
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/360/509
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Chemical abundances of about fifteen elements from oxygen to europium are measured in seven red giants of the two open clusters NGC 2360 and NGC 2447. The effective temperatures of the giants are determined spectroscopically by taking advantage of their known masses (~2M_{sun}_ in NGC 2360 and ~3M_{sun}_ in NGC 2447) and bolometric magnitudes. The average iron abundances we obtain for the two clusters are [Fe/H]=0.07 for NGC 2360 and [Fe/H]=0.03 for NGC 2447.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/367/86
- Title:
- Chemical abundances of 5 Galactic disk B stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/367/86
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- High-resolution, high signal-to-noise spectral data are presented for four young B-type stars lying towards the Galactic Centre. Determination of their atmospheric parameters from their absorption line profiles, and uvby photometric measurement of the continua indicate that they are massive objects lying slightly out of the plane, and were probably born in the disk between 2.5-5kpc from the Centre. We have carried out a detailed absolute and differential line-by-line abundance analyses of the four stars compared to two stars with very similar atmospheric parameters in the solar neighbourhood. The stars appear to be rich in all the well sampled chemical elements (C, N, Si, Mg, S, Al), except for oxygen. Oxygen abundances derived in the atmospheres of these four stars are very similar to that in the solar neighbourhood. If the photospheric composition of these young stars is reflective of the gaseous ISM in the inner Galaxy, then the values derived for the enhanced metals are in excellent agreement with the extrapolation of the Galactic abundance gradients previously derived by Rolleston et al. (2000A&A...363..537R) and others. However, the data for oxygen suggests that the inner Galaxy may not be richer than normal in this element, and the physical reasons for such a scenario are unclear.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/562/A146
- Title:
- Chemical abundances of 8 metal-poor stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/562/A146
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We determine chemical compositions of six red giant stars in the Bootes I dwarf spheroidal galaxy, based on the high-resolution spectra obtained with the High Dispersion Spectrograph mounted on the Subaru Telescope. Abundances of 12 elements, including C, Na, alpha, Fe-peak, and neutron capture elements, were determined for the sample stars. The abundance results were compared to those in field Milky Way halo stars previously obtained using an abundance analysis technique similar to the present study. We confirm the low metallicity of Boo-094 ([Fe/H]=-3.4). Except for this star, the abundance ratios ([X/Fe]) of elements lighter than zinc are generally homogeneous with small scatter around the mean values in the metallicities spanned by the other five stars (-2.7<[Fe/H]<-1.8). Specifically, all of the sample stars with [Fe/H]>-2.7 show no significant enhancement of carbon. The [Mg/Fe] and [Ca/Fe] ratios are almost constant with a modest decreasing trend with increasing [Fe/H] and are slightly lower than the field halo stars. The [Sr/Fe] and [Sr/Ba] ratios also tend to be lower in the Bootes I stars than in the halo stars. Our results of small scatter in the [X/Fe] ratios for elements lighter than zinc suggest that these abundances were homogeneous among the ejecta of prior generation(s) of stars in this galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/806/16
- Title:
- CHemical Abundances of Spirals (CHAOS). I. NGC628
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/806/16
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The CHemical Abundances of Spirals (CHAOS) project leverages the combined power of the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) with the broad spectral range and sensitivity of the Multi Object Double Spectrograph (MODS) to measure "direct" abundances (based on observations of the temperature-sensitive auroral lines) in large samples of HII regions in spiral galaxies. We present LBT MODS observations of 62 HII regions in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 628, with an unprecedentedly large number of auroral lines measurements (18 [OIII]{lambda}4363, 29 [NII]{lambda}5755, 40 [SIII]{lambda}6312, and 40 [OII]{lambda}{lambda}7320,7330 detections) in 45 HII regions. We conduct a uniform abundance analysis prioritizing the temperatures derived from [SIII]{lambda}6312 and [NII]{lambda}5755, and report the gas-phase abundance gradients for NGC 628. Relative abundances of S/O, Ne/O, and Ar/O are constant across the galaxy, consistent with no systematic change in the upper IMF over the sampled range in metallicity. These alpha-element ratios, along with N/O, all show small dispersions ({sigma}~0.1dex) over 70% of the azimuthally averaged radius. We interpret these results as an indication that, at a given radius, the interstellar medium in NGC 628 is chemically well-mixed. Unlike the gradients in the nearly temperature-independent relative abundances, O/H abundances have a larger intrinsic dispersion of ~0.165dex. We posit that this dispersion represents an upper limit to the true dispersion in O/H at a given radius and that some of that dispersion is due to systematic uncertainties arising from temperature measurements.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/446/2348
- Title:
- Chemical analysis of CH stars. II.
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/446/2348
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present detailed chemical analyses for a sample of 12 stars selected from the CH star catalogue of Bartkevicius (1996BaltA...5..217B). The sample includes two confirmed binaries, four objects that are known to show radial velocity variations and the rest with no information on the binary status. A primary objective is to examine if all these objects exhibit chemical abundances characteristics of CH stars, based on detailed chemical composition study using high-resolution spectra. We have used high-resolution (R~42000) spectra from the ELODIE archive (Moultaka et al. 2004PASP..116..693M). These spectra cover 3900 to 6800 {AA} in the wavelength range. We have estimated the stellar atmospheric parameters, the effective temperature T_eff_, the surface gravity log g, and metallicity [Fe/H] from local thermodynamic equilibrium analysis using model atmospheres. Estimated temperatures of these objects cover a wide range from 4200 to 6640 K, the surface gravity from 0.6 to 4.3 and metallicity from -0.13 to -1.5. We report updates on elemental abundances for several heavy elements, Sr, Y, Zr, Ba, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu and Dy. For the object HD 89668, we present the first abundance analyses results. Enhancement of heavy elements relative to Fe, a characteristic property of CH stars is evident from our analyses in the case of four objects, HD 92545, HD 104979, HD 107574 and HD 204613. A parametric-model-based study is performed to understand the relative contributions from the s- and r-process to the abundances of the heavy elements.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/773/33
- Title:
- Chemical analysis of the metal-poor subgiant BD+44 493
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/773/33
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present detailed chemical abundances for the bright carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) star BD+44{deg}493, previously reported on by Ito et al. (2009ApJ...698L..37I). Our measurements confirm that BD+44{deg}493 is an extremely metal-poor ([Fe/H]=-3.8) subgiant star with excesses of carbon and oxygen. No significant excesses are found for nitrogen and neutron-capture elements (the latter of which place it in the CEMP-no class of stars). Other elements that we measure exhibit abundance patterns that are typical for non-CEMP extremely metal-poor stars. No evidence for variations of radial velocity has been found for this star. These results strongly suggest that the carbon enhancement in BD+44{deg}493 is unlikely to have been produced by a companion asymptotic giant-branch star and transferred to the presently observed star, nor by pollution of its natal molecular cloud by rapidly-rotating, massive, mega metal-poor ([Fe/H]<-6.0) stars. A more likely possibility is that this star formed from gas polluted by the elements produced in a "faint" supernova, which underwent mixing and fallback, and only ejected small amounts of elements of metals beyond the lighter elements. The Li abundance of BD+44{deg}493 (A(Li)=log(Li/H)+12=1.0) is lower than the Spite plateau value, as found in other metal-poor subgiants. The upper limit on Be abundance (A(Be)=log(Be/H)+12<-1.8) is as low as those found for stars with similarly extremely-low metallicity, indicating that the progenitors of carbon- (and oxygen-) enhanced stars are not significant sources of Be, or that Be is depleted in metal-poor subgiants with effective temperatures of ~5400K.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/695/L134
- Title:
- Chemical anomalies in old LMC clusters
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/695/L134
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- By using the multifiber spectrograph FLAMES mounted at the ESO-VLT, we have obtained high-resolution spectra for 18 giant stars, belonging to three old globular clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud (namely NGC 1786, 2210, and 2257). While stars in each cluster showed quite homogeneous iron content, within a few cents of dex (the mean values being [Fe/H]=-1.75+/-0.01dex, -1.65+/-0.02dex and -1.95+/-0.02dex for NGC 1786, 2210, and 2257, respectively), we have detected significant inhomogeneities for the [Na/Fe], [Al/Fe], [O/Fe], and [Mg/Fe] abundance ratios, with evidence of [O/Fe] versus [Na/Fe] and [Mg/Fe] versus [Al/Fe] anticorrelations. The trends detected nicely agree with those observed in Galactic Globular Clusters, suggesting that such abundance anomalies are ubiquitous features of old stellar systems and they do not depend on the parent galaxy environment. In NGC 1786 we also detected two extreme O-poor, Na-rich stars. This is the first time that a firm signature of extreme chemical abundance anomalies has been found in an extragalactic stellar cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/281/465
- Title:
- Chemical Composition of alf UMi and V473 Lyr
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/281/465
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The spectrograms of the s-Cepheids alpha-UMi and HR 7308, taken at reciprocal dispersion of 9 A/mm with the Main Stellar Spectrograph at the Special Astrophysical Observatory's 6-m telescope, were analysed for determining chemical elements abundance. The results include the equivalent width, and the abundances in the two stars.
