Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars in dwarf galaxies

Abstract

We investigate the frequency and origin of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars in Local Group dwarf galaxies by means of a statistical, data-calibrated cosmological model for the hierarchical build-up of the Milky Way and its dwarf satellites. The model self-consistently explains the variation with dwarf galaxy luminosity of the observed: i) frequency and [Fe/H] range of CEMP stars; ii) metallicity distribution functions; iii) star formation histories. We show that if primordial faint supernovae dominated the early metal enrichment, then CEMP-no stars enriched by the first stellar generations should be present in all dwarf galaxies, with similar number of stars and CEMP fractions at [Fe/H]$<-4$. We demonstrate that the probability to observe a star that is carbon-enhanced within a given [Fe/H] range strongly depends on the luminosity of the dwarf galaxy and, on average, it is an order of magnitude lower in "classical" Sculptor-like dSph galaxies ($P\le 0.02$) than in the least luminous ultra-faint dwarfs ($P\approx 0.1$). In addition, we explain why it may be easier to find CEMP-no stars at [Fe/H]$\approx -2$ in classical dSph galaxies than in ultra-faint dwarfs. These are consequences of the dramatic variation in the fraction of stars at [Fe/H]$<-3$ with galaxy luminosity: $\ge 40\%$ for galaxies with $L<10^5{L}_{\odot }$, and $\le 0.2\%$ for $L>10^7{L}_{\odot }$. We present model predictions for the low Fe-tail and CEMP fraction of stars in dwarf galaxies, with particular emphasis on the Sculptor dSph, that can be used to shed light on the properties of the first stars.

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