Near-field cosmology with extremely metal-poor stars

A Frebel, JE Norris - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The oldest, most metal-poor stars in the Galactic halo and satellite dwarf galaxies present an
opportunity to explore the chemical and physical conditions of the earliest star-forming …

[HTML][HTML] Binary stars in the new millennium

X Chen, Z Liu, Z Han - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
Binary stars are as common as single stars. Binary stars are of immense importance to
astrophysicists because that they allow us to determine the masses of the stars independent …

The origin of elements from carbon to uranium

C Kobayashi, AI Karakas, M Lugaro - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
To reach a deeper understanding of the origin of elements in the periodic table, we construct
Galactic chemical evolution (GCE) models for all stable elements from C (A= 12) to U (A …

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS): improved SEDs, morphologies, and redshifts with 12 optical filters

C Mendes de Oliveira, T Ribeiro… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is imaging∼ 9300
deg2 of the celestial sphere in 12 optical bands using a dedicated 0.8 m robotic telescope …

Four-hundred very metal-poor stars studied with LAMOST and Subaru. II. Elemental abundances

H Li, W Aoki, T Matsuno, Q Xing, T Suda… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present homogeneous abundance analysis of over 20 elements for 385 very metal-poor
(VMP) stars based on the LAMOST survey and follow-up observations with the Subaru …

The faintest dwarf galaxies

JD Simon - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The lowest luminosity (L) Milky Way satellite galaxies represent the extreme lower limit of the
galaxy luminosity function. These ultra-faint dwarfs are the oldest, most dark matter …

r-Process elements from magnetorotational hypernovae

D Yong, C Kobayashi, GS Da Costa, MS Bessell… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Neutron-star mergers were recently confirmed as sites of rapid-neutron-capture (r-process)
nucleosynthesis,–. However, in Galactic chemical evolution models, neutron-star mergers …

Dynamical relics of the ancient galactic halo

Z Yuan, GC Myeong, TC Beers, NW Evans… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We search for dynamical substructures in the LAMOST DR3 very metal-poor (VMP) star
catalog. After cross-matching with Gaia DR2, there are∼ 3300 VMP stars with available high …

The R-process Alliance: A nearly complete r-process abundance template derived from ultraviolet spectroscopy of the r-process-enhanced metal-poor Star HD …

IU Roederer, JE Lawler, EA Den Hartog… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a nearly complete rapid neutron-capture process (r-process) chemical inventory
of the metal-poor ([Fe/H]=− 1.46±0.10) r-process-enhanced ([Eu/Fe]=+ 1.32±0.08) halo star …

Complete element abundances of nine stars in the r-process galaxy Reticulum II

AP Ji, A Frebel, JD Simon, A Chiti - The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present chemical abundances derived from high-resolution Magellan/Magellan Inamori
Kyocera Echelle spectra of the nine brightest known red giant members of the ultra-faint …