Bibcode
Rebolo, R.; Beckman, J.; Molaro, P.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 172, no. 1-2, Jan. 1987, p. L17-L19.
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1987
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Description
The authors have measured the 7Li abundance in G 64-12 an
extremely metal-deficient dwarf [Fe/H] = -3.5 (Carney and Peterson,
1981) with effective temperature Teff = 6350K, and a very
high velocity Vrad = 439 km/s. The result is log
N(7Li) = 2.23 (±0.20), where log N(H) = 12. This star
has a considerably lower metallicity than previous population II dwarfs
with measured 7Li. The proximity of this 7Li
abundance to those previously measured in halo dwarfs together with its
relatively high Teff lends added support to the view that
lithium abundance of just over 2 represents an essentially undepleted
primordial value. This taken together with recent estimates of
primordially produced 4He places tight constraints on the
universal baryon to photon ratio.