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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 736, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/736/2/113
关键词
galaxies: abundances; galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: evolution; stars: abundances
资金
- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [21540246]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21540246] Funding Source: KAKEN
Growing evidence supports an unusual elemental feature appearing in nearby dwarf galaxies, especially dwarf spheroidals (dSphs), indicating a key process of galaxy evolution that is different from that of the Galaxy. In addition to the well-known deficiency of alpha-elements in dSphs, recent observations have clearly shown that s-process elements (Ba) are significantly enhanced relative to Fe, alpha-, and r-process elements. This enhancement occurs in some dSphs as well as in the Large Magellanic Cloud, but is unseen in the Galaxy. Here we report that this feature is evidence of the lack of very massive stars (greater than or similar to 25 M-circle dot) as predicted in the low star formation rate environment. We conclude that the unique elemental feature of dwarf galaxies including a low alpha/Fe ratio in some low-metallicity stars is, at least in some part, characterized by a different form of the initial mass function. We present a detailed model for the Fornax dSph galaxy and discuss its complex chemical enrichment history together with the nucleosynthesis site of the light s-process element Y.
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