Probing the Site for [CLC][ITAL]r[/ITAL][/CLC]-Process Nucleosynthesis with Abundances of Barium and Magnesium in Extremely Metal-poor Stars

  • Tsujimoto T
  • Shigeyama T
  • Yoshii Y
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Abstract

We suggest that if the astrophysical site for r-process nucleosynthesis in the early Galaxy is confined to a narrow mass range of Type II supernova (SN II) progenitors, with a lower mass limit of Mms = 20 Msun, a unique feature in the observed distribution of [Ba/Mg] vs.[Mg/H] for extremely metal-poor stars can be adequately reproduced. We associate this feature, a bifurcation of the observed elemental ratios into two branches in the Mg abundance interval -2.7 20 Msun. The second branch, which we call the ``i''-branch, is associated with the elemental abundance ratios of stars which were formed in the dense shells of the interstellar medium swept up by SNe II with Mms < 20 Msun that do not synthesize r-process elements, and applies to stars with observed Mg abundances in the range [Mg/H] < 20 Msun are infertile sources for the production of r-process elements. We predict the existence of this i-branch for other r-process elements, such as europium (Eu), to the extent that their production site is in common with Ba.

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Tsujimoto, T., Shigeyama, T., & Yoshii, Y. (2000). Probing the Site for [CLC][ITAL]r[/ITAL][/CLC]-Process Nucleosynthesis with Abundances of Barium and Magnesium in Extremely Metal-poor Stars. The Astrophysical Journal, 531(1), L33–L36. https://doi.org/10.1086/312514

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