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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 619, Issue 2, Pages 884-890Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/426778
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ISM : abundances; ISM : atoms; nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances; stars : individual (HD 208440, HD 209339A)
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The source of fluorine is not well understood, although core-collapse supernovae, Wolf-Rayet stars, and asymptotic giant branch stars have been suggested. A search for evidence of the nu-process during Type II supernovae is presented. Absorption from interstellar F I is seen in spectra of HD 208440 and HD 209339A acquired with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer. In order to extract the column density for F I from the line at 954 Angstrom, absorption from H-2 has to be modeled and then removed. Our analysis indicates that for H-2 column densities less than about 3 x 10(20) cm(-2), the amount of F I can be determined from lambda954. For these two sight lines, there is no clear indication for enhanced F abundances resulting from the nu-process in a region shaped by past supernovae.
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