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Detection of low Eu abundances in extremely metal-poor stars and the origin of r-process elements

Yuhri Ishimaru, Shinya Wanajo, Wako Aoki, Sean G. Ryan

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0306388

Abstract

We report abundance analyses of three extremely metal-poor stars with [Fe/H] -3, using the Subaru High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS). All are found to have sub-solar values of [Eu/Fe]. Comparison with our chemical evolution model of the Galactic halo implies the dominant source of Eu to be the low-mass end of the supernova mass range. Future studies of stars with low Eu abundances will be important to determine the r-process site.

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