The lowest detected stellar Fe abundance: the halo star SMSS J160540.18−144323.1
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Nordlander, T
Bessell, M S
Da Costa, G S
Mackey, A D
Asplund, M
Casey, A R
Chiti, Anirudh
Ezzeddine, Rana
Frebel, Anna L.
Lind, K
Date Issued
July 2019
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
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Nordlander, T. et al. "The lowest detected stellar Fe abundance: the halo star SMSS J160540.18−144323.1." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 488, 1 (July 2019): L109–L113 © 2019 The Author(s)
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We report the discovery of SMSS J160540.18−144323.1, a new ultra metal-poor halo star discovered with the SkyMapper telescope. We measure Fe/H = -6.2 ± 0.2 (1D LTE), the lowest ever detected abundance of iron in a star. The star is strongly carbon-enhanced, C/Fe = 3.9 ± 0.2$, while other abundances are compatible with an α-enhanced solar-like pattern with Ca/Fe = 0.4 ± 0.2, Mg/Fe = 0.6 ± 0.2, Ti/Fe = 0.8 ± 0.2, and no significant s- or r-process enrichment, Sr/Fe < 0.2 and Ba/Fe < 1.0 (3σ limits). Population III stars exploding as fallback supernovae may explain both the strong carbon enhancement and the apparent lack of enhancement of odd-Z and neutron-capture element abundances. Grids of supernova models computed for metal-free progenitor stars yield good matches for stars of about 10M[subscript⨀] imparting a low kinetic energy on the supernova ejecta, while models for stars more massive than roughly 20M[subscript⨀] are incompatible with the observed abundance pattern.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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