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A&A
Volume 683, March 2024
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Article Number | A137 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
Section | Stellar atmospheres | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202347849 | |
Published online | 15 March 2024 |
Neutron-capture elements in a sample of field metal-poor N-rich dwarfs★
1
GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS,
Place Jules Janssen,
92190
Meudon, France
e-mail: monique.spite@obspm.fr
2
GEPI, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Univ. Paris Diderot,
Sorbonne Paris Cité, 61 avenue de l’Observatoire,
75014
Paris, France
Received:
31
August
2023
Accepted:
20
November
2023
Context. The aim of this work is to measure the abundances of n-capture elements in a sample of six metal-poor N-rich dwarfs that were formed in globular clusters, and subsequently became unbound from the cluster. These N-rich stars, HD 25329, HD 74000, HD 160617, G 24-3, G53-41, and G90-3, were previously studied in Paper I.
Aims. The abundances of the n-capture elements in these stars were compared to the abundances in normal metal-poor dwarfs and in globular cluster stars in the same metallicity range in order to find evidence of an enrichment of the material from which these N-rich stars were formed, by the ejecta of massive asymptotic giant branch stars (AGB) inside the cluster.
Methods. The abundances of 15 elements, from Sr to Yb, were derived line by line by comparing the observed profiles to synthetic spectra in a sample of six metal-poor N-rich dwarfs and nine classical metal-poor dwarfs.
Results. We show that, generally speaking, the behaviours of the intermediate metal-poor stars here studied and the extremely metal-poor stars are very different. In particular, the scatter of the [X/Fe] ratios is much smaller since many more stars contribute to the enrichment. Among our six metal-poor N-rich stars, three stars (G24-3 and HD 74000 and maybe also HD 160617) present an enrichment in elements formed by the s-process, typical of a contribution of AGB stars, unexpected at the metallicity of these stars. This suggests that the intracluster medium from which these stars were formed was enriched by a first generation of massive AGB stars. Another N-rich star, G53-41, is also rich in s-process elements, but since it is more metal-rich this could be due to the normal galactic enrichment by low-mass AGB stars before the formation of the cluster. In contrast, two stars (G 90-3 and HD 25329) have an abundance pattern compatible with a pure r-process such as that seen in metal-poor stars with [Fe/H] < −1.5.
Key words: nuclear reactions / nucleosynthesis / abundances / stars: abundances / Galaxy: abundances / globular clusters: general
Based on observations collected at the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (Archives of programmes 090.B-0504(A) PI: Chaname; 095.D-0504(A) PI: Melendez; 076.B-0166(A) PI: Pasquini; 067.D-0086(A) PI: Gehren; 071.B-0529(A) PI: Silva; 065.L-0507(A) PI: Primas), and collected at the W. M. Keck Observatory, archive programme G401H, PI: Melendez. One star was also observed at ESO with the spectrograph ESPRESSO, programme 107.22RU.001 PI: Spite, and two stars were observed at the Observatoire de Haute Provence (Archives of programme 10A.PNPS.HALB, PI: Halbwachs) and at the Narval spectrograph of the Observatoire du Pic du Midi, programme L172N04, PI: Spite.
© The Authors 2024
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