Issue |
A&A
Volume 548, December 2012
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Article Number | A34 | |
Number of page(s) | 34 | |
Section | Stellar atmospheres | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015615 | |
Published online | 15 November 2012 |
Elemental abundances and classification of carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars⋆,⋆⋆
1
Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de
São Paulo, rua do Matão
1226, 05508-900
São Paulo, Brazil
e-mail: dimallen@astro.iag.usp.br; rossi@astro.iag.usp.br
2
Centre for Astrophysics Research, STRI and School of Physics,
Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
e-mail: s.g.ryan@herts.ac.uk
3
National Optical Astronomy Observatory,
950 N. Cherry Avenue,
Tucson, AZ
85719,
USA
e-mail: beers@noao.edu
Received:
19
August
2010
Accepted:
24
August
2012
We present a detailed study of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars, based on high-resolution spectroscopic observations of a sample of 18 stars. The stellar spectra for this sample were obtained at the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope in 2001 and 2002, using the Utrecht Echelle Spectrograph, at a resolving power R ~ 52 000 and S/N ~ 40, covering the wavelength range λλ3700−5700 Å. The atmospheric parameters determined for this sample indicate temperatures ranging from 4750 K to 7100 K, log g from 1.5 to 4.3, and metallicities −3.0 ≤ [Fe/H] ≤ −1.7. Elemental abundances for C, Na, Mg, Sc, Ti, Cr, Cu, Zn, Sr, Y, Zr, Ba, La, Ce, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy are determined. Abundances for an additional 109 stars were taken from the literature and combined with the data of our sample. The literature sample reveals a lack of reliable abundance estimates for species that might be associated with the r-process elements for about 67% of CEMP stars, preventing a complete understanding of this class of stars, since [Ba/Eu] ratios are used to classify them. Although eight stars in our observed sample are also found in the literature sample, Eu abundances or limits are determined for four of these stars for the first time. From the observed correlations between C, Ba, and Eu, we argue that the CEMP-r/s class has the same astronomical origin as CEMP-s stars, highlighting the need for a more complete understanding of Eu production.
Key words: stars: abundances / stars: atmospheres / stars: chemically peculiar / stars: carbon
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