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最贫金属的阻尼莱曼α系统:在非常贫金属的制度下对化学演变的见解

The most metal-poor damped Lyman-alpha systems: Insights into chemical evolution in the very metal-poor regime

Ryan Cooke, Max Pettini, Charles C. Steidel, Gwen C. Rudie, Poul E. Nissen

摘要:

我们提出了一个高光谱分辨率调查的最贫金属阻尼莱曼α吸收系统(DLAs),旨在探测的性质和核合成的最早几代的恒星。我们的调查包括22个系统,铁丰度小于1/100太阳;其中7个的观测报告是第一次。再加上最近的措施,在银河系贫金属恒星的C和O的丰度,我们重新调查的C/O的趋势,在非常贫金属制度,我们比较,第一次,O/Fe比在最贫金属的DLAs和晕星。我们确认了在探测到的最低金属丰度下DLAs中的近太阳C/O值,并发现它们的分布与星系晕星中的分布一致。我们发现在非常贫金属(VMP)的DLAs中O/Fe比基本上是恒定的,并且表现出非常小的分散性,平均值[<O/Fe>] = +0.39 +/- 0.12,与从[O I] 6300线测量氧丰度时在星系晕星中测量的值非常一致.我们推测,这种良好的协议,在所观察到的丰度趋势点,这些金属的普遍起源。鉴于这一协议,我们构建了一个典型的非常贫金属DLA的丰度模式,并将其与人口II和人口III核合成的模型计算进行比较,以确定VMP DLA中金属的来源。我们的研究结果表明,大多数贫金属的DLA可能已经被一代无金属的恒星所富集;然而,鉴于目前只有少数元素的丰度测量,我们还不能排除来自星族II恒星的额外贡献。

英文摘要:

We present a high spectral resolution survey of the most metal-poor damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems (DLAs) aimed at probing the nature and nucleosynthesis of the earliest generations of stars. Our survey comprises 22 systems with iron abundance less than 1/100 solar; observations of seven of these are reported here for the first time. Together with recent measures of the abundances of C and O in Galactic metal-poor stars, we reinvestigate the trend of C/O in the very metal-poor regime and we compare, for the first time, the O/Fe ratios in the most metal-poor DLAs and in halo stars. We confirm the near-solar values of C/O in DLAs at the lowest metallicities probed, and find that their distribution is in agreement with that seen in Galactic halo stars. We find that the O/Fe ratio in very metal-poor (VMP) DLAs is essentially constant, and shows very little dispersion, with a mean [<O/Fe>] = +0.39 +/- 0.12, in good agreement with the values measured in Galactic halo stars when the oxygen abundance is measured from the [O I] 6300 line. We speculate that such good agreement in the observed abundance trends points to a universal origin for these metals. In view of this agreement, we construct the abundance pattern for a typical very metal-poor DLA and compare it to model calculations of Population II and Population III nucleosynthesis to determine the origin of the metals in VMP DLAs. Our results suggest that the most metal-poor DLAs may have been enriched by a generation of metal-free stars; however, given that abundance measurements are currently available for only a few elements, we cannot yet rule out an additional contribution from Population II stars.

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