The Gaia-ESO Survey: alpha-abundances of metal-poor stars
(2014) In Astronomy & Astrophysics 571.- Abstract
- We performed a detailed study of the ratio of low-alpha to high-alpha stars in the Galactic halo as observed by the Gaia-ESO Survey. Using a sample of 381 metal-poor stars from the second internal data release, we found that the value of this ratio did not show evidence of systematic trends as a function of metallicity, surface gravity, Galactic latitude, Galactic longitude, height above the Galactic plane, and Galactocentric radius. We conclude that the alpha(poor)/alpha(rich) value of 0.28 +/- 0.08 suggests that in the inner halo, the larger portion of stars were formed in a high star formation rate environment, and about 15% of the metal-poor stars originated from much lower star formation rate environments.
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- 2014
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- published
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- keywords
- stars: abundances, Galaxy: halo
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- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- volume
- 571
- article number
- L5
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- EDP Sciences
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- wos:000345282600103
- scopus:84910681473
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- 0004-6361
- DOI
- 10.1051/0004-6361/201425099
- project
- Gaia-ESO Survey
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 47457270-07bb-4c17-9760-b2f6a2ec9db4 (old id 5069054)
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