Extremely metal-poor stars with GRACES. I. Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Jeong M.
  2. Lee Y.S.
  3. Beers T.C.
  4. Placco V.M.
  5. Kim Y.K.
  6. Koo J.-R.,Lee H.-G.
  7. Yang S.-C.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present stellar parameters and abundances of 13 elements for 18 very metal-poor (VMP; [Fe/H]{<}-2.0) stars, selected as extremely metal-poor (EMP; [Fe/H]{<}-3.0) candidates from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Large sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) survey. High-resolution spectroscopic observations were performed using GEMINI-N/GRACES. We find 10 EMP stars among our candidates, and we newly identify three carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars with [Ba/Fe]<0. Although chemical abundances of our VMP/EMP stars generally follow the overall trend of other Galactic halo stars, there are a few exceptions. One Na-rich star ([Na/Fe]=+1.14) with low [Mg/Fe] suggests a possible chemical connection with second-generation stars in a globular cluster. The progenitor of an extremely Na-poor star ([Na/Fe]=-1.02) with high K- and Ni-abundance ratios may have undergone a distinct nucleosynthesis episode, associated with core-collapse supernovae (SNe) having a high explosion energy. We have also found a Mg-rich star ([Mg/Fe]=+0.73) with slightly enhanced Na and extremely low [Ba/Fe], indicating that its origin is not associated with neutron-capture events. On the other hand, the origin of the lowest Mg abundance ([Mg/Fe]=-0.61) star could be explained by accretion from a dwarf galaxy, or formation in a gas cloud largely polluted by SNe Ia. We have also explored the progenitor masses of our EMP stars by comparing their chemical-abundance patterns with those predicted by Population III SNe models, and find a mass range of 10-26M_{sun}_, suggesting that such stars were primarily responsible for the chemical enrichment of the early Milky Way.

Keywords
  1. chemical-abundances
  2. visible-astronomy
  3. spectroscopy
  4. chemically-peculiar-stars
  5. effective-temperature
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2023ApJ...948...38J
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