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极贫金属星样品中的NLTE锶丰度和早期银河系的Sr/Ba比值

NLTE strontium abundance in a sample of extremely metal poor stars and the Sr/Ba ratio in the early Galaxy

S. M. Andrievsky, F. Spite, S. A. Korotin, P. Francois, M. Spite, P. Bonifacio, R. Cayrel, V. Hill

摘要:

重元素在极度贫金属恒星中的丰度对这些元素在第一批恒星中形成的过程提供了强有力的限制。我们试图确定精确的丰度锶在一个均匀的样品中的极端贫金属恒星。通过放弃局域热力学平衡(LTE)假设,将非局域热力学平衡(NLTE)谱线与观测到的谱线拟合,重新测定了54颗非常或极贫金属星的锶丰度。校正后的Sr丰度和以前获得的NLTE Ba丰度进行比较,几个假设的形成过程中的预测较轻的中子捕获元素。我们的NLTE丰度证实了先前确定的低金属丰度恒星中锶丰度的巨大分散。这种分散也被发现(甚至更大)在非常低的金属丰度(即。e.在化学进化的早期)。在极贫金属(EMP)的恒星的Sr丰度是兼容的主要r-过程中涉及的其他过程(或通过变化的r-过程),我们简要讨论。

英文摘要:

Heavy element abundances in extremely metal-poor stars provide strong constraints on the processes of forming these elements in the first stars. We attempt to determine precise abundances of strontium in a homogeneous sample of extremely metal-poor stars. The abundances of strontium in 54 very or extremely metal-poor stars, was redetermined by abandoning the local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) hypothesis, and fitting non-LTE (NLTE) profiles to the observed spectral lines. The corrected Sr abundances and previously obtained NLTE Ba abundances are compared to the predictions of several hypothetical formation processes for the lighter neutron-capture elements. Our NLTE abundances confirm the previously determined huge scatter of the strontium abundance in low metallicity stars. This scatter is also found (and is even larger) at very low metallicities (i. e. early in the chemical evolution). The Sr abundance in the extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars is compatible with the main r-process involved in other processes (or by variations of the r-process), as we briefly discuss.

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