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The Oxygen Abundance of the Ultra-metal-poor Star HE 0557–4840

  • Authors: John E. Norris, N. Christlieb, M. S. Bessell, M. Asplund, K. Eriksson, and A. J. Korn

Norris et al. 2012 The Astrophysical Journal 753 150.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Comparison of the combined VLT/UVES spectra observed in 2006 and 2007 with synthetic spectra for nitrogen abundances of log  epsilon(N) = −9.99  (i.e., no nitrogen), 3.5, 4.0, and 4.5. We conservatively adopt log  epsilon(N) < 4.0 as the upper limit for the nitrogen abundance of HE 0557−4840.

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