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In this study we investigate the chemical enrichment of the rapid neutron-capture process in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We measure [Eu/Fe] abundance ratios in 209 giant stars that are confirmed members of the SMC, providing the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 Samuele Anoardo , Alessio Mucciarelli , Marco Palla , Lorenzo Santarelli , Carmela Lardo , Donatella Romano

We derive the first detailed chemical abundances of three star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), NGC1831 (436+/-22 Myr), NGC1856 (350+/-18 Myr) and [SL63]268 (1230+/-62 Myr) using integrated-light spectroscopic observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-11 Randa Asa'd , S. Hernandez , A. M. As'ad , M. Molero , F. Matteucci , S. Larsen , Igor V. Chilingarian

We study the chemical evolution and formation of the Galactic halo through the analysis of its stellar metallicity distribution function and some key elemental abundance patterns. Starting from the two-infall model for the Galaxy, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Brusadin , F. Matteucci , D. Romano

We update the treatment of chemical evolution in the Munich semi-analytic model, L-GALAXIES. Our new implementation includes delayed enrichment from stellar winds, supernovae type II (SNe-II) and supernovae type Ia (SNe-Ia), as well as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Robert M. Yates , Bruno Henriques , Peter A. Thomas , Guinevere Kauffmann , Jonas Johansson , Simon D. M. White

We compute the chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge to explain the existence of two main stellar populations recently observed. After comparing model results and observational data we suggest that the old more metal poor stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 V. Grieco , F. Matteucci , A. Pipino , G. Cescutti

We present 3D hydrodynamical simulations aimed to study the dynamical and chemical evolution of the interstellar medium in dwarf spheroidal galaxies. This evolution is driven by the explosions of Type II and Type Ia supernovae, whose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Marcolini , A. D'Ercole , F. Brighenti , S. Recchi

We present the first-ever global, spatially-resolved reconstruction of the star formation history (SFH) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), based on the application of our StarFISH analysis software to the multiband photometry of twenty…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jason Harris , Dennis Zaritsky

We investigate the chemical properties of local galaxies within a cosmological framework in the hierarchical picture of galaxy formation. To this aim, we use a hierarchical semi-analytic model which includes the contribution from (i) low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Francesco Calura , Nicola Menci

We calculate the mean evolution of the iron-peak abundance ratios [(Cr,Mn,Co,Zn)/Fe] in the Galaxy, using modern supernova and hypernova chemical yields and a Galactic Chemical Evolution code that assumes homogeneous chemical evolution. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 J. J. Grimmett , Amanda I. Karakas , Alexander Heger , Bernhard Müller , Christopher West

We present the abundance gradients of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) for 25 elemental abundance ratios and their respective temporal evolution as well as age-[X/Fe] trends using 6130 LMC field red giant branch (RGB) stars observed by…

We present C and O abundances in the Magellanic Clouds derived from deep spectra of HII regions. The data have been taken with the Ultraviolet-Visual Echelle Spectrograph at the 8.2-m VLT. The sample comprises 5 HII regions in the Large…

We analyse two recent computations of type II supernova nucleosynthesis by Woosley & Weaver (1995, WW95) and Thielemann, Nomoto, & Hashimoto (1996, TNH96), focusing on the ability to reproduce the observed [Mg/Fe]-ratios in various galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Thomas , L. Greggio , R. Bender

Recent spectroscopic observations of globular clusters (GCs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have discovered that one of the intermediate-age GC, NGC 1718 with [Fe/H]=-0.7 has an extremely low [Mg/Fe] ratio of ~-0.9. We propose that NGC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Takuji Tsujimoto , Kenji Bekki

The enrichment history of $r$-process elements has been imprinted on the stellar abundances that change in accordance with increasing metallicity in galaxies. Close examination of the [Eu/Fe] feature caused by stars in nearby galaxies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-19 Takuji Tsujimoto

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the Milky Way's most massive satellite galaxy, which only recently (~2 billion years ago) fell into our Galaxy. Since stellar atmospheres preserve their natal cloud's composition, the LMC's recent infall…

We investigate chemical evolution in Milky Way-like galaxies based on the cold dark matter model in which cosmic structures form via hierarchical merging. We introduce chemical enrichment due to type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) into the Mitaka…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masahiro Nagashima , Takashi Okamoto

We have observed ten red giant stars in four old Large Magellanic Cloud globular clusters with the high-resolution spectrograph MIKE on the Magellan Landon Clay 6.5-m telescope. The stars in our sample have up to 20 elemental abundance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jennifer A. Johnson , Inese I. Ivans , Peter B. Stetson

Models of the chemical evolution of our Galaxy are extended to include radial migration of stars and flow of gas through the disc. The models track the production of both iron and alpha elements. A model is chosen that provides an excellent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ralph Schoenrich , James Binney

We study a group of evolved M-stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, characterized by a peculiar spectral energy distribution. While the $9.7~\mu$m feature arises from silicate particles, the whole infrared data seem to suggest the presence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-18 E. Marini , F. Dell'Agli , D. A. García-Hernández , M. A. T. Groenewegen , S. Puccetti , P. Ventura , E. Villaver

In the first paper in this series, we proposed a new framework in which to model the chemical evolution of globular clusters. This model, is predicated upon the assumption that clusters form within an interstellar medium enriched locally by…