An unsupervised method for identifying $X$-enriched stars directly from spectra: Li in LAMOST

Abstract

Stars with peculiar element abundances are important markers of chemical enrichment mechanisms. We present a simple method, tangent space projection (TSP), for the detection of $X$-enriched stars, for arbitrary elements $X$, even from blended lines. Our method does not require stellar labels, but instead directly estimates the counterfactual unrenriched spectrum from other unlabelled spectra. As a case study, we apply this method to the $6708$Å Li doublet in LAMOST DR5, identifying 8,428 Li-enriched stars seamlessly across evolutionary state. We comment on the explanation for Li-enrichement for different subpopulations, including planet accretion, nonstandard mixing, and youth.

Published in ApJ; Data available at https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-3ap9-qe35

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