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Chemical Evolution of R-process Elements in Stars (CERES). III. Chemical abundances of neutron capture elements from Ba to Eu
L. Lombardo, C. J. Hansen, F. Rizzuti +11
The chemical abundances of elements such as barium and the lanthanides are essential to understand the nucleosynthesis of heavy elements in the early Universe as well as the contri…
Chemical Evolution of R-process Elements in Stars (CERES): IV. An observational run-up of the third r-process peak with Hf, Os, Ir, and Pt
Arthur Alencastro Puls, Jan Kuske, Camilla Juul Hansen +8
The third r-process peak (Os, Ir, Pt) is poorly understood due to observational challenges, with spectral lines located in the blue or near-ultraviolet region of stellar spectra. T…
SDSS J102915.14+172927.9: Revisiting the chemical pattern
E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, L. Monaco +7
Context: The small- to intermediate-mass (), most metal-poor stars that formed in the infancy of the Universe are still shining today in the sky. They are very rare…
The accretion history of the Milky Way IV. Hints of recent star formation in Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Yanbin Yang, Elisabetta Caffau, Piercarlo Bonifacio +3
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are known to be dominated by old stellar populations. This has led to the assumption that their gas-rich progenitors lost their gas during their infall in…
The Pristine survey -- XXIII. Data Release 1 and an all-sky metallicity catalogue based on Gaia DR3 BP/RP spectro-photometry
Nicolas F. Martin, Else Starkenburg, Zhen Yuan +38
We used the spectro-photometric information of ~219 million stars from Gaia's DR3 to calculate synthetic, narrow-band, metallicity-sensitive CaHK magnitudes that mimic the observat…
Neutron-capture elements in a sample of field metal-poor N-rich dwarfs
M Spite, P Bonifacio, E Caffau +1
The aim of this work is to measure the abundances of n-capture elements in a sample of six metal-poor N-rich dwarfs that were formed in globular clusters, and subsequently became u…