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5 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

Untangling the Sources of Abundance Dispersion in Low-metallicity Stars II: Neutron Capture Elements

Emily J. Griffith, Marissa Blum, David H. Weinberg +4

We present the abundances of 23 elements, including 11 heavy elements (Cu, Zn, Sr, Y, Zr, Ba, La, Ce, Nd, Sm, Eu) for up to 86 metal-poor (-2 < [Fe/H] < -1) subgiants. We use KORG,…

astro-ph.GA2025

On the Origin of Abundance Variations in the Milky Way's High- Plateau

Tawny Sit, David H. Weinberg, Emily J. Griffith

Using multi-element abundances from the SDSS APOGEE survey, we investigate the origin of abundance variations in Milky Way (MW) disk stars on the "high- plateau," with $-0.5\leq…

astro-ph.GA2024

Many elements matter: Detailed abundance patterns reveal star-formation and enrichment differences among Milky Way structural components

Emily J. Griffith, David W. Hogg, Sten Hasselquist +5

Many nucleosynthetic channels create the elements, but two-parameter models characterized by and Fe nonetheless predict stellar abundances in the Galactic disk to accuracies of…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Milky Way Radial Metallicity Gradient as an Equilibrium Phenomenon: Why Old Stars are Metal-Rich

James W. Johnson, David H. Weinberg, Guillermo A. Blanc +12

Metallicities of both gas and stars decline toward large radii in spiral galaxies, a trend known as the radial metallicity gradient. We quantify the evolution of the metallicity gr…

astro-ph.GA2024

2-process Model and Residual Abundance Analysis of the Milky Way Massive Satellites

Sten Hasselquist, Christian R. Hayes, Emily J. Griffith +4

The ``2-process Model'' is a promising technique for interpreting stellar chemical abundance data from large-scale surveys (e.g., SDSS-IV/V, GALAH), enabling more quantitative empi…