Accuracy and precision of industrial stellar abundances

P Jofré, U Heiter, C Soubiran - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
There has been an incredibly large investment in obtaining high-resolution stellar spectra for
determining chemical abundances of stars. This information is crucial to answer …

From nuclei to the cosmos: tracing heavy-element production with the oldest stars

A Frebel - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Understanding the origin of the elements has been a decades-long pursuit, with many open
questions remaining. Old stars found in the Milky Way and its dwarf satellite galaxies can …

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 …

SkyMapper southern survey: First data release (DR1)

C Wolf, CA Onken, LC Luvaul, BP Schmidt… - Publications of the …, 2018 - cambridge.org
We present the first data release of the SkyMapper Southern Survey, a hemispheric survey
carried out with the SkyMapper Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. Here …

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 …

Carbon, oxygen, and iron abundances in disk and halo stars-Implications of 3D non-LTE spectral line formation

AM Amarsi, PE Nissen, Á Skúladóttir - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2019 - aanda.org
The abundances of carbon, oxygen, and iron in late-type stars are important parameters in
exoplanetary and stellar physics, as well as key tracers of stellar populations and Galactic …

The Pristine survey–I. Mining the Galaxy for the most metal-poor stars

E Starkenburg, N Martin, K Youakim… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present the Pristine survey, a new narrow-band photometric survey focused on the
metallicity-sensitive Ca H&K lines and conducted in the Northern hemisphere with the wide …

The initial mass function of the first stars inferred from extremely metal-poor stars

MN Ishigaki, N Tominaga, C Kobayashi… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We compare the elemental abundance patterns of∼ 200 extremely metal-poor
(EMP;[Fe/H]<− 3) stars to the supernova yields of metal-free stars, in order to obtain insights …

Probing the early Milky Way with GHOST spectra of an extremely metal-poor star in the Galactic disc

A Dovgal, KA Venn, F Sestito, CR Hayes… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Pristine_183. 6849+ 04.8619 (P1836849) is an extremely metal-poor ([Fe/H]=−
3.3±0.1) star on a prograde orbit confined to the Galactic disc. Such stars are rare and may …

JINAbase—A database for chemical abundances of metal-poor stars

A Abohalima, A Frebel - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Reconstructing the chemical evolution of the Milky Way is crucial for understanding the
formation of stars, planets, and galaxies throughout cosmic time. Different studies associated …