Discovery of an Extremely r-process-enhanced Thin-disk Star with [Eu/H] = +0.78

Xie, Xiao-Jin; Shi, Jianrong; Yan, Hong-Liang; Chen, Tian-Yi; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Beers, Timothy C.; Liu, Shuai; Li, Chun-Qian; Ding, Ming-Yi; Tang, Yao-Jia; Zhang, Ruizhi; Xie, Renjing
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The Astrophysical Journal

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2024
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Highly r-process-enhanced (RPE) stars are rare and usually metal poor ([Fe/H] < ‑1.0), and they mainly populate the Milky Way halo and dwarf galaxies. This study presents the discovery of a relatively bright (V = 12.72), highly RPE (r-II) star ([Eu/Fe] = +1.32, [Ba/Eu] = ‑0.95), LAMOST J020623.21+494127.9. This star was selected from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope medium-resolution (R ∼ 7500) spectroscopic survey; follow-up high-resolution (R ∼ 25,000) observations were conducted with the High Optical Resolution Spectrograph installed on the Gran Telescopio Canarias. The stellar parameters (T eff = 4130 K, = 1.52, [Fe/H] = ‑0.54, ξ = 1.80 km s‑1) have been inferred taking into account nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium effects. The abundances of [Ce/Fe], [Pr/Fe], and [Nd/Fe] are +0.19, +0.65, and +0.64, respectively, relatively low compared to the Solar r-process pattern normalized to Eu. This star has a high metallicity ([Fe/H] = ‑0.54) compared to most other highly RPE stars and has the highest measured abundance ratio of Eu to H ([Eu/H] = +0.78). It is classified as a thin-disk star based on its kinematics and does not appear to belong to any known stream or dwarf galaxy.
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