7 papers
TOPoS VII. Age-metallicity relation in the Galactic halo and assembly of the Milky Way
P. Bonifacio, Y. Lebreton, I. Koutsouridou +8
One technique for determining stellar ages is to compare the position of a star in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram to theoretical stellar evolutionary tracks. The sub-giant evoluti…
TYC 170-1218-1: A new r-process-enhanced extremely metal-poor star, rich in Th
E. Caffau, P. Bonifacio, L. Sbordone +5
Context . Extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars are formed from gas clouds enriched by one or a few supernova explosions belonging to the first stellar generation and this very limited…
Gaia DR3 high radial velocity stars: Genuine fast-moving objects or outliers?
D. Katz, A. Gómez, E. Caffau +39
The third Gaia data release includes 33.8 million radial velocity measurements, extending to a magnitude of G_RVS = 14. To reach this magnitude limit, spectra were processed down t…
Unlocking the mystery of Sr synthesis in the early Galaxy through analysis of barium isotopes in very metal-poor stars
T. M. Sitnova, L. Lombardo, L. I. Mashonkina +8
We determine the contributions of the rapid (r) and slow (s) neutron capture processes to the Ba isotope mixture, along with Ba, Eu, and Sr NLTE abundances, in a sample of very met…
VLTI/GRAVITY upper limit on near-infrared emission from the nearby 33 Msun black hole Gaia BH3
Pierre Kervella, Pasquale Panuzzo, Alexandre Gallenne +11
The recent astrometric discovery of the nearby (590 pc) massive () dormant black hole candidate Gaia BH3 offers the possibility to angularly resolve the black hole from…
MINCE III. Detailed chemical analysis of the UVES sample
F. Lucertini, L. Sbordone, E. Caffau +14
Context. The MINCE (Measuring at Intermediate Metallicity Neutron-Capture Elements) project aims to provide high quality neutron-capture abundances measurements in several hundred…