Halo Star Abundances and r-Process Synthesis
Astrophysics
2009-11-06 v1
Abstract
We review recent observational studies of heavy element abundances in low metallicity stars and explore some implications of these results for nucleosynthesis and early Galactic chemical evolution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0101440,
title = {Halo Star Abundances and r-Process Synthesis},
author = {J. W. Truran and J. J. Cowan and B. D. Fields},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0101440},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 6 figures. To appear in Proceedings of Nuclei in the Cosmos 2000, Nuclear Physics A