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The Hamburg/ESO R-process Enhanced Star survey (HERES)

Journal

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 607, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629092

Keywords

stars: abundances; stars: individual: CS 29497-004; stars: Population II; stars: chemically peculiar; Galaxy: halo

Funding

  1. German Research Foundation (DFG) [Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 881]
  2. Physics Frontier Center/Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA) [PHY 14-30152]
  3. Physics Frontier Center/JINA Center for the Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE) - US National Science Foundation
  4. Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
  5. [PHY 02-16783]
  6. [PHY 08-22648]
  7. Division Of Physics
  8. Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1430152] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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We report an abundance analysis for the highly r-process-enhanced (r-II) star CS 29497-004, a very metal-poor giant with solar system T-eff = 5013 K and [Fe/H] = -2 : 85, whose nature was initially discovered in the course of the HERES project. Our analysis is based on high signal-to-noise ratio, high-resolution (R similar to 75 000) VLT/UVES spectra and MARCS model atmospheres under the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium, and obtains abundance measurements for a total of 46 elements, 31 of which are neutron-capture elements. As is the case for the other similar to 25 r-II stars currently known, the heavy-element abundance pattern of CS 29497-004 well-matches a scaled solar system second peak r-process-element abundance pattern. We confirm our previous detection of Th, and demonstrate that this star does not exhibit an actinide boost. Uranium is also detected (log is an element of (U) = -2 : 20 +/- 0 : 30), albeit with a large measurement error that hampers its use as a precision cosmo-chronometer. Combining the various elemental chronometer pairs that are available for this star, we derive a mean age of 12 : 2 +/- 3 : 7 Gyr using the theoretical production ratios from published waitingpoint approximation models. We further explore the high-entropy wind model (Farouqi et al. 2010, ApJ, 712, 1359) production ratios arising from different neutron richness of the ejecta (Y-e), and derive an age of 13 : 7 +/- 4 : 4 Gyr for a best-fitting Y-e = 0 : 447. The U/Th nuclei-chronometer is confirmed to be the most resilient to theoretical production ratios and yields an age of 16 : 5 +/- 6 : 6 Gyr. Lead (Pb) is also tentatively detected in CS 29497-004, at a level compatible with a scaled solar r-process, or with the theoretical expectations for a pure r-process in this star.

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