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We investigate stellar elemental abundance patterns at z = 0 in 8 low-mass (M_* = 10^6 - 10^9 M_sun) galaxies in the Feedback in Realistic Environments (FIRE-2) cosmological simulations. Using magnesium (Mg) as a representative…

We measure chemical abundances for over 20 elements of 15 N-rich field stars with high resolution ($R \sim 30000$) optical spectra. We find that Na, Mg, Al, Si, and Ca abundances of our N-rich field stars are mostly consistent with those of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-02 Jincheng Yu , Baitian Tang , J. G. Fernandez-Trincado , Douglas Geisler , Hongliang Yan , M. Soto

The Milky Way ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) contain some of the oldest, most metal-poor stars in the Universe. We present [Mg/Fe], [Si/Fe], [Ca/Fe], [Ti/Fe], and mean [alpha/Fe], abundance ratios for 61 individual red giant branch stars…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Luis C. Vargas , Marla Geha , Evan N. Kirby , Joshua D. Simon

The sensitivity of stellar spectra to alpha/Fe abundance changes is investigated with the aim to be detected photometricly and employed for scientific goals of the GAIA mission. A grid of plane parallel, line blanketed, flux constant, LTE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Grazina Tautvaisiene , Bengt Edvardsson

ABRIDGED: METHODS: We have conducted a high-resolution spectroscopic study of 714 F and G dwarf and subgiant stars in the Solar neighbourhood. The star sample has been kinematically selected to trace the Galactic thin and thick disks to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 T. Bensby , S. Feltzing , M. S. Oey

New abundances of N, O, Na, Mg, Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, Cr, Fe, Sr, Zr, and Ba are presented for 10 A-type supergiants in the SMC, plus upper limits for C. In interpreting the CNO results for constraints on stellar evolution theories, careful…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 Kim Venn

In recent years a number of poorly studied chemical elements, such as phosphorus, sulphur, and strontium, have received special attention as important tracers of the Galactic chemical evolution. By exploiting the capabilities of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-16 E. Caffau , S. Andrievsky , S. Korotin , L. Origlia , E. Oliva , N. Sanna , H. -G. Ludwig , P. Bonifacio

We present a model-fit pipeline to determine the stellar parameters of M-type dwarfs, which is an improvement upon our previous work described in Hejazi et al. 2020. We apply this pipeline to analyze the low-resolution (R~2000) spectra of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Neda Hejazi , Sebastien Lepine , Thomas Nordlander

M dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the Universe and are hosts of a rich diversity of planetary companions. In many cases, planets orbiting M dwarfs can be described in remarkable detail. What makes the difference is how deeply we can…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-07 Carlos Cifuentes

Abundances of alpha-elements such as Ca and Mg in disk and halo stars are usually derived from equivalent widths lines measured on high resolution spectra, and assuming Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (LTE) . In this paper, we present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Idiart , F. Thevenin

The measurement of stellar properties such as chemical compositions, masses and ages, through stellar spectra, is a fundamental problem in astrophysics. Progress in the understanding, calculation and measurement of atomic properties and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Paul S. Barklem

The first generations of stars left their chemical fingerprints on metal-poor stars in the Milky Way and its surrounding dwarf galaxies. While instantaneous and homogeneous enrichment implies that groups of co-natal stars should have the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-16 Jennifer Mead , Melissa Ness , Eric Andersson , Emily J. Griffith , Danny Horta

CONTEXT:The detailed chemical abundances of extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars are key guides to understanding the early chemical evolution of the Galaxy. Most existing data are, however, for giant stars which may have experienced internal…

In this paper, we present a study of the abundances of Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Co, and Ni in a large set of stars known to harbor giant planets, as well as in a comparison sample of stars not known to have any planet ary-mass companions.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Bodaghee , N. C. Santos , G. Israelian , M. Mayor

Context. Being the most numerous and oldest stars in the galaxy, M dwarfs are objects of great interest for exoplanet searches. The presence of molecules in their atmosphere complicates our understanding of their atmospheric properties. But…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 A. S. Rajpurohit , F. Allard , S. Rajpurohit , R. Sharma , G. D. C. Teixeira , O. Mousis , R. Kamlesh

We derive the star formation histories of eight dwarf spheroidal (dSph) Milky Way satellite galaxies from their alpha element abundance patterns. Nearly 3000 stars from our previously published catalog (Paper II) comprise our data set. The…

Based on the near infrared spectra of 42 M dwarfs, carbon abundances are determined from the ro-vibrational lines of CO 2-0 band. We use Teff values based on the angular diameters if available or apply a logTeff - M3.4 (the absolute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Takashi Tsuji , Tadashi Nakajima

We report the first survey of chemical abundances in M and K dwarf stars using atomic absorption lines in high resolution spectra. We have measured Fe and Ti abundances in 35 M and K dwarf stars using equivalent widths measured from (lambda…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vincent M. Woolf , George Wallerstein

The relativley large spread in the derived metallicities ([Fe/H]) of M dwarfs shows that various approaches have not yet converged to consistency. The presence of strong molecular features, and incomplete line lists for the corresponding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Anna Önehag , Ulrike Heiter , Bengt Gustafsson , Nikolai Piskunov , Bertrand Plez , Ansgar Reiners

In the current era of large spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way, reference stars for calibrating astrophysical parameters and chemical abundances are of paramount importance. We determine elemental abundances of Mg, Si, Ca, Sc, Ti, V,…