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Detailed Chemical Abundances of Stars in the Outskirts of the Tucana II Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxy

  • Authors: Anirudh Chiti, Anna Frebel, Alexander P. Ji, Mohammad K. Mardini, Xiaowei Ou, Joshua D. Simon, Helmut Jerjen, Dongwon Kim, John E. Norris

Anirudh Chiti et al 2023 The Astronomical Journal 165 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Top panel: spectrum of TucII-309 (black line) around the Mn λ4030.7 absorption feature, with synthetic spectra at [Mn/Fe] = −1.5, −1.0, and −0.5 overlaid along with a reference MIKE spectrum of the metal-poor halo star 2MASS J00011195+0321051 (purple) from Ezzeddine et al. (2020). 2MASS J00011195+0321051 has similar stellar parameters (T eff = 4909 K, ﹩\mathrm{log}\,g﹩ = 1.75, v micro = 1.85, [Fe/H] = −1.99; Ezzeddine et al. 2020) to TucII-309 but a [Mn/Fe] = −0.36, in line with the halo trend (see Figure 4). Bottom panel: same as the top panel, but around the Mn λ4754 absorption feature. The 2MASS J00011195+0321051 Mn λ4754 absorption feature is clearly visible, but the feature is not detected in TucII-309, demonstrating the low Mn abundance of TucII-309. Note that the Mn abundance from the λ4754 feature in Ezzeddine et al. (2020) for 2MASS J00011195+0321051 is [Mg/H] = −2.51, consistent with the above synthesis.

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