Bibcode
Recio-Blanco, A.; de Laverny, P.; Worley, C.; Santos, N. C.; Melo, C.; Israelian, G.
Referencia bibliográfica
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 538, id.A117
Fecha de publicación:
2
2012
Revista
Número de citas
28
Número de citas referidas
25
Descripción
Context. In spite of many observational efforts to characterize the
chemical evolution of our Galaxy, not much is known about the origin of
fluorine (F). Models suggest that the F found in the Galaxy might have
been produced mainly in three different ways, namely, Type II
supernovae, asymptotic giant branch nucleosynthesis, or in the core of
Wolf-Rayet stars. Only a few observational measurements of F abundances
are available in the literature and mostly for objects whose
characteristics might hamper an accurate determination of fluorine
abundance (e.g., complex mixing and nucleosynthesis processes,
external/internal contamination). Aims: We acquire data using the
high-resolution IR-spectrograph CRIRES and gather FEROS data from the
European Southern Observatory archive. The classical method of spectral
synthesis in local thermodynamic equilibrium has been used to perform
the abundance analysis. Methods: We derive the F abundances of
nine cool main-sequence dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood, based on an
unblended line of the HF molecule at 2.3 microns. In addition, we study
the s-process elements of five of these stars. Results: Several
of the analysed stars seem to be slightly fluorine enhanced with respect
to the Sun, although no correlation is found between the F abundance and
the iron content. In addition, the most fluorine enriched stars are also
yttrium and zirconium enriched, which suggests that AGB fluorine
nucleosynthesis is the dominant source of fluorine production for the
observed stars. Nevertheless, the correlation between [F/Fe] and the
s-elements is rather weak and possibly masked by the uncertainties in
the F abundance measurements. Finally, we compare our derived F
abundances to previous measurements of alpha-element and iron-peak
element abundances. Type II core collapse supernovae do not appear to be
the main site of F production for our targets, as no correlation seems
to exist between the [F/Fe] and the [α/Fe] ratios.
Based on VLT/CRIRES observations collected at the European Southern
Observatory, proposal 079.D-0450.
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