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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/418/863
- Title:
- NLTE corrections for Mg and Ca lines
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/418/863
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We investigate NLTE effects for magnesium and calcium in the atmospheres of late-type giant and supergiant stars. The aim of this paper is to provide a grid of NLTE/LTE equivalent width ratios W/W* of Mg and Ca lines for the following range of stellar parameters: Teff in [3500,5250]K, log(g) in [0.5,2.0]dex and [Fe/H] in [-4.0,0.5]dex. We use realistic model atoms with the best physics available and taking into account the fine structure. The Mg and Ca lines of interest are in optical and near IR ranges. A special interest concerns the lines in the Gaia spectrograph (RVS) wavelength domain [847,874]nm. The NLTE corrections are provided as function of stellar parameters in an electronic table as well as in a polynomial form for the Gaia/RVS lines.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/847/16
- Title:
- NLTE spectroscopy. II. Galactic metal-poor stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/847/16
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- From exploratory studies and theoretical expectations it is known that simplifying approximations in spectroscopic analysis (local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE), 1D) lead to systematic biases of stellar parameters and abundances. These biases depend strongly on surface gravity, temperature and, in particular, for LTE versus non-LTE (NLTE), on metallicity of the stars. Here we analyze the [Mg/Fe] and [Fe/H] plane of a sample of 326 stars, comparing LTE and NLTE results obtained using 1D hydrostatic models and averaged <3D> models. We show that compared to the <3D> NLTE benchmark, the other three methods display increasing biases toward lower metallicities, resulting in false trends of [Mg/Fe] against [Fe/H], which have profound implications for interpretations by chemical evolution models. In our best <3D> NLTE model, the halo and disk stars show a clearer behavior in the [Mg/Fe]-[Fe/H] plane, from the knee in abundance space down to the lowest metallicities. Our sample has a large fraction of thick disk stars and this population extends down to at least [Fe/H]~-1.6dex, further than previously proven. The thick disk stars display a constant [Mg/Fe]~0.3dex, with a small intrinsic dispersion in [Mg/Fe] that suggests that a fast SN Ia channel is not relevant for the disk formation. The halo stars reach higher [Mg/Fe] ratios and display a net trend of [Mg/Fe] at low metallicities, paired with a large dispersion in [Mg/Fe]. These indicate the diverse origin of halo stars from accreted low-mass systems to stochastic/inhomogeneous chemical evolution in the Galactic halo.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/373/987
- Title:
- Non-LTE Ga abundance in HgMn stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/373/987
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present, for the first time, the Non-LTE gallium equivalent widths for the most prominent gallium transitions as identified in real spectra and in (hot) mercury-manganese star. The common feature of the departure coefficients is to decrease near the stellar surface, the collision rates are dominant in many cases and the Non-LTE equivalent widths are generally smaller. In particular, the abundance difference as derived from UV and visual lines is reduced. The photoionization cross sections were computed by means of standard R-matrix formalism.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/891/28
- Title:
- N-rich field stars from LAMOST and APOGEE data
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/891/28
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Interesting chemically peculiar field stars may reflect their stellar evolution history and their possible origin in a different environment from where they are found now; this is one of the most important research fields in Galactic archeology. To explore this further, we have used the CN-CH bands around 4000{AA} to identify N-rich metal-poor field stars in LAMOST DR3. Here we expand our N-rich, metal-poor field star sample to ~100 stars in LAMOST DR5, where 53 of them are newly found in this work. We investigate light elements of common stars between our sample and APOGEE DR14. While Mg, Al, and Si abundances generally agree with the hypothesis that N-rich metal-poor field stars come from enriched populations in globular clusters, it is still inconclusive for C, N, and O. After integrating the orbits of our N-rich field stars and a control sample of normal metal-poor field stars, we find that N-rich field stars have different orbital parameter distributions compared to the control sample-specifically, apocentric distances, maximum vertical amplitude (Zmax), orbital energy, and z-direction angular momentum (Lz). The orbital parameters of N-rich field stars indicate that most of them are inner-halo stars. The kinematics of N-rich field stars support their possible GC origin. The spatial and velocity distributions of our bona fide N-rich field star sample are important observational evidence to constrain simulations of the origin of these interesting objects.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/724/341
- Title:
- Nucleosynthesis of massive metal-free stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/724/341
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The evolution and explosion of metal-free stars with masses 10-100M_{sun}_ are followed, and their nucleosynthetic yields, light curves, and remnant masses determined. Such stars would have been the first to form after the big bang and may have left a distinctive imprint on the composition of the early universe. When the supernova yields are integrated over a Salpeter initial mass function (IMF), the resulting elemental abundance pattern is qualitatively solar, but with marked deficiencies of odd-Z elements with 7<=Z<=13. Neglecting the contribution of the neutrino wind from the neutron stars that they form, no appreciable abundances are made for elements heavier than germanium. The computed pattern compares favorably with what has been observed in metal-deficient stars with [Z]<~-3. For the lower mass supernovae considered, the distribution of remnant masses clusters around typical modern neutron star masses, but above 20-30M-{sun}_, with the value depending on explosion energy, black holes are copiously formed by fallback, with a maximum hole mass of ~40M_{sun}_. A novel automated fitting algorithm is developed for determining optimal combinations of explosion energy, mixing, and IMF in the large model database to agree with specified data sets. The model is applied to the low-metallicity sample of Cayrel et al. (Cat. J/A+A/416/1117) and the two ultra-iron-poor stars HE0107-5240 and HE1327-2326. Best agreement with these very low metallicity stars is achieved with very little mixing, and none of the metal-deficient data sets considered show the need for a high-energy explosion component. In contrast, explosion energies somewhat less than 1.2B seem to be preferred in most cases.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASJ/58/389
- Title:
- O/Fe abundances of 15 RR Lyrae
- Short Name:
- J/PASJ/58/389
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In order to study how the conventional spectroscopic method based on the equivalent widths of the Fe I and Fe II lines effectively applies to determining the atmospheric parameters (Teff, logg, v_t_, [Fe/H]) of RR Lyrae variables and how accurately the abundances can be established from such constructed model atmospheres, we analyzed 15 high-dispersion spectrograms of RR Lyr, DX Del, DH Peg, and VY Ser taken at several different phases by using the HDS spectrograph of the Subaru Telescope, and examined the consistency of the resulting phase-to-phase abundances.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/524/A45
- Title:
- Overproduction factors of s-nuclei in massive stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/524/A45
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using the "post-processing" technique, we explore the role of the convective overshooting on the production of s-nuclei in stellar models of different initial mass and metallicity (M_ZAMS_ in the range 15-25M_{sun}_ Z in the range 10^-4^-0.02), considering a range of values for the parameter f, which determines the overall efficiency of convective overshooting. We find enhancements in the production of s-nuclei until a factor ~6 (measured as the average overproduction factor of the 6 s-only nuclear species with 60<A<90) in all our models of different initial mass and metallicity having f in the range 0.01-0.035 (i.e. models with overshooting), compared to the production obtained with "no-overshooting" models (i.e. models having the same initial mass and metallicity but f=10^-5^). Moreover the results indicate that the link between the overshooting parameter f and the s-process efficiency is essentially monotonic in all our models of different initial mass and metallicity. Also evident is the higher s-process efficiency when, for a given f value, we progressively increase both the mass of the models from 15 to 25M_{sun}_ and the Z value from 10^-4^ to 0.02.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/595/1154
- Title:
- Oxygen abundances in metal-poor stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/595/1154
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present oxygen abundances derived from both the permitted and forbidden oxygen lines for 54 subgiants and giants with [Fe/H] values between -2.7 and solar with the goal of understanding the discrepancy in the derived abundances. A first attempt, using Teff values from photometric calibrations and surface gravities from luminosities obtained agreement between the indicators for turn-off stars, but the disagreement was large for evolved stars. We find that the difference in the oxygen abundances derived from the permitted and forbidden lines is most strongly affected by Teff, and we derive a new Teff scale based on forcing the two sets of lines to give the same oxygen abundances. These new parameters, however, do not agree with other observables, such as theoretical isochrones or Balmer-line profile based Teff determinations. Our analysis finds that one-dimensional, LTE analyses (with published non-LTE corrections for the permitted lines) cannot fully resolve the disagreement in the two indicators without adopting a temperature scale that is incompatible with other temperature indicators. We also find no evidence of circumstellar emission in the forbidden lines, removing such emission as a possible cause for the discrepancy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/159/254
- Title:
- Parameters for 453 metal-poor stars in NGC5139
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/159/254
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The most massive and complex globular clusters in the Galaxy are thought to have originated as the nuclear cores of now tidally disrupted dwarf galaxies, but the connection between globular clusters and dwarf galaxies is tenuous with the M54/Sagittarius system representing the only unambiguous link. The globular cluster Omega Centauri ({omega}Cen) is more massive and chemically diverse than M54, and is thought to have been the nuclear star cluster of either the Sequoia or Gaia-Enceladus galaxy. Local Group dwarf galaxies with masses equivalent to these systems often host significant populations of very metal-poor stars ([Fe/H]<-2.5), and one might expect to find such objects in {omega}Cen. Using high-resolution spectra from Magellan-M2FS, we detected 11 stars in a targeted sample of 395 that have [Fe/H] ranging from -2.30 to -2.52. These are the most metal-poor stars discovered in the cluster, and are five times more metal-poor than {omega}Cen's dominant population. However, these stars are not so metal-poor as to be unambiguously linked to a dwarf galaxy origin. The cluster's metal-poor tail appears to contain two populations near [Fe/H]~-2.1 and -2.4, which are very centrally concentrated but do not exhibit any peculiar kinematic signatures. Several possible origins for these stars are discussed.
