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The formation of the milky way halo and its dwarf satellites: a NLTE-1D abundance analysis. IV. Segue 1, Triangulumii, and Coma Berenices UFDs

Sitnova, T. M.
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Mashonkina, L., I
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Tatarnikov, A. M.
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June 1, 2021
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society

We present atmospheric parameters and abundances for chemical elements from carbon to barium in metal-poor stars in Segue 1 (seven stars), Coma Berenices (three stars), and Triangulum II (one star) ultrafaint dwarf galaxies (UFDs). The effective temperatures rely on new photometric observations in the visible and infra-red bands, obtained with the 2.5 m telescope of the SAI MSU Caucasian observatory. Abundances of up to fourteen chemical elements were derived under the non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) line formation, and LTE abundances were obtained for up to five more elements. For the first time, we present abundance of oxygen in Seg 1 S1 and S4, silicon in ComaBer S2 and Tri II S40, potassium in Seg 1 S1-S6 and ComaBer S1-S3, and barium in Seg 1 S7. Three stars in Segue 1, two stars in Coma Berenices, and Triangulumii star have very low [Na/Mg] of -1.08 to -1.67 dex, which is usually attributed in the literature to an odd-even effect produced by nucleosynthesis in massive metal-free stars. We interpret this chemical property as a footprint of first stars, which is not blurred due to a small number of nucleosynthesis events that contributed to chemical abundance patterns of the sample stars. Our NLTE abundances of Sr and Ba in Coma Berenices, Segue 1, and Triangulumii report on lower [Sr/Ba] abundance ratio in the UFDs compared to that in classical dwarf spheroidal galaxies and the Milky Way halo. However, in UFDs, just as in massive galaxies, [Sr/Ba] is not constant and it can be higher than the pure r-process ratio. We suggest a hypothesis of Sr production in metal-poor binaries at the earliest epoch of galactic evolution.

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research article
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stab786
Web of Science ID

WOS:000656137100086

Author(s)
Sitnova, T. M.
Mashonkina, L., I
Tatarnikov, A. M.
Voziakova, O. V.
Burlak, M. A.
Pakhomov, Yu, V
Jablonka, P.  
Neretina, M. D.
Frebel, A.
Date Issued

2021-06-01

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS

Published in
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society
Volume

504

Issue

1

Start page

1183

End page

1200

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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stars: abundances

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stars: atmospheres

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local group

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metal-poor stars

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high-resolution spectroscopy

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core-collapse supernovae

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non-lte applications

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i log(gf) values

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effective temperature scale

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neutron-capture elements

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process enhanced star

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h collision data

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r-process

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