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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 8.

Top panel: abundance pattern of TucII-305 (red squares) with the best-fitting SN yield model (blue) and other SN yield models within 2σ of the best-fitting χ 2 value (gray) overplotted. The best-fitting progenitor SN is low mass (∼11 M ) and low energy (E ∼ 0.3 × 1051 ergs), though the abundances are consistent with a broad range of acceptable parameters. Bottom left panel: distribution of the progenitor masses of consistent models. While there is a preference for low masses, the range of acceptable masses does extend to the high-mass regime. Bottom right panel: dilution mass vs. explosion energy of the models with the best-fitting model shown in blue. The red dashed line indicates the minimum dilution mass for the given SN energy (see Section 5.2 in Ji et al. 2020b); models below this line are excluded.

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