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富r星的整体丰度分析

A holistic abundance analysis of r-rich stars

Jiang Zhang, Wenyuan Cui, Bo Zhang

摘要:

贫金属恒星的化学丰度是一个很好的测试平台,可以通过它对低金属丰度下的中子捕获过程模型设置新的约束。一些富r过程的贫金属恒星,如HD 221170,表现出过量的较重的中子捕获元素和过量的较轻的中子捕获元素。对这些富r星的研究有助于我们更好地理解低金属丰度下的弱r过程和主r过程核合成。根据贫金属星的观测结果和中子俘获元素核合成理论,建立了贫金属星中弱r过程和主r过程对重元素丰度的相对贡献模型。利用该模型,我们发现大多数样品星的轻元素丰度模式接近于弱r过程星的丰度模式,重中子俘获元素的丰度模式与主r过程星的丰度模式非常相似,而轻中子俘获元素的丰度模式可以用弱r过程和主r过程物质的混合来拟合。弱r过程元素的产生似乎与轻元素有关,而主r过程元素的产生几乎与轻元素的产生解耦。我们将我们的结果与低金属丰度下的观测数据进行了比较,表明预测趋势与观测趋势吻合良好,至少对于金属丰度范围[Fe/H] <-2.1。对于大多数样本恒星来说,中子捕获元素和轻元素的丰度模式可以最好地解释为在分子云中形成的恒星被弱的和主要的r-过程物质污染。

英文摘要:

The chemical abundances of metal-poor stars are an excellent test bed by which to set new constraints on models of neutron-capture processes at low metallicity. Some r-process-rich (hereafter r-rich) metal-poor stars, such as HD221170, show an overabundance of the heavier neutron-capture elements and excesses of lighter neutron-capture elements. The study of these r-rich stars could give us a better understanding of weak and main r-process nucleosynthesis at low metallicity. Based on conclusions from the observation of metal-poor stars and neutron-capture element nucleosynthesis theory, we set up a model to determine the relative contributions from weak and main r-processes to the heavy-element abundances in metal-poor stars. Using this model, we find that the abundance patterns of light elements for most sample stars are close to the pattern of weak r-process stars, and those of heavier neutron-capture elements very similar to the pattern of main r-process stars, while the lighter neutron-capture elements can be fitted by the mixing of weak and main r-process material. The production of weak r-process elements appears to be associated with the light elements, while the production of main r-process elements is almost decoupled from that of the light elements. We compare our results with the observed data at low metallicities, showing that the predicted trends are in good agreement with the observed trends, at least for the metallicity range [Fe/H] < -2.1. For most sample stars, the abundance patterns of both neutron-capture elements and light elements could be best explained by a star formed in a molecular cloud that has been polluted by both weak and main r-process material.

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