Chemical characteristics of three stellar streams
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Author(s)
Gull, Maude.
Advisor(s)
Anna Frebel.
Alternative Title
Chemical characteristics of 3 stellar streams
Date Issued
2019
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
In this thesis, we present high-resolution spectra of stars of three different stellar stream; Helmi debris stream, Helmi trail stream and [omega] Centauri stream. These stars have metallicities ranging from -3.05 < [Fe/HJ < -1.25 and magnitudes ranging from 9 < V < 13.5, thereby classifying them as bright metal-poor stars. We report detailed chemical abundance signatures of light fusion elements and heavy neutron-capture elements. We find that all three streams contain stars with r-process abundance signatures. Additionally, three star show a clear combined r+s-process enhancement. Those stars likely formed from a r-process enhanced gas and then experienced a s-process mass-transfer by a binary companion. Given the occurrence of r-process enhanced stars in all three streams, it is likely that the progenitors of these streams must have been similar in nature to ultra-faint r-process dwarf galaxies like Tucana III and Reticulum II, which were enriched in r-process elements by one neutron star merger or another prolific r-process source at the earliest times.
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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2019
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-40).
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Physics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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