OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON FIRST-STAR NUCLEOSYNTHESIS. II. SPECTROSCOPY OF AN ULTRA METAL-POOR CEMP-no STAR
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Placco, Vinicius M.
Beers, Timothy C.
Yoon, Jinmi
Heger, Alexander
Chan, Conrad
Casey, Andrew R.
Christlieb, Norbert
Frebel, Anna L.
Chiti, Anirudh
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December 2016
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The Astrophysical Journal
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IOP Publishing
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Placco, Vinicius M. et al. “OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON FIRST-STAR NUCLEOSYNTHESIS. II. SPECTROSCOPY OF AN ULTRA METAL-POOR CEMP-No STAR.” The Astrophysical Journal 833.1 (2016): 21. © 2016 The American Astronomical Society.
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Abstract
We report on the first high-resolution spectroscopic analysis of HE 0020–1741, a bright (V = 12.9), ultra metal-poor ([Fe/H] = −4.1), carbon-enhanced ([C/Fe] = +1.7) star selected from the Hamburg/ESO Survey. This star exhibits low abundances of neutron-capture elements ([Ba/Fe] = −1.1) and an absolute carbon abundance A(C) = 6.1; based on either criterion, HE 0020–1741 is subclassified as a carbon-enhanced metal-poor star without enhancements in neutron-capture elements (CEMP-no). We show that the light-element abundance pattern of HE 0020–1741 is consistent with predicted yields from a massive (M = 21.5[subscript ⊙]), primordial-composition, supernova (SN) progenitor. We also compare the abundance patterns of other ultra metal-poor stars from the literature with available measures of C, N, Na, Mg, and Fe abundances with an extensive grid of SN models (covering the mass range 10-100M[subscript ⊙], in order to probe the nature of their likely stellar progenitors. Our results suggest that at least two classes of progenitors are required at [Fe/H] < -4.0, as the abundance patterns for more than half of the sample studied in this work (7 out of 12 stars) cannot be easily reproduced by the predicted yields.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/833/1/21
