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Galactic Evolution of Beryllium and Oxygen

Garik Israelian, Ramon Garcia Lopez, Rafael Rebolo

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0003336

Abstract

We discuss the early evolution of beryllium and oxygen in our Galaxy by comparing abundances of these elements for halo and disk metal-poor stars. Both, O and Be rise as we go progressively to more metal-rich stars, showing a slope 0.41 +-0.09 ([Be/O] vs [Fe/H]) for stars with [Fe/H] < -1. This relationship provides an observational constraint to the actually proposed Galactic Cosmic Ray theories.

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