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Abundance Clues to Early Galactic Chemical Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

James W. Truran*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, 8046 Garching b. München, FRG, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

Abstract

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High S/N spectroscopic studies of the abundance patterns characterizing extremely metal-deficient halo field stars and globular cluster stars have served to provide significant clues to and increasingly stringent boundary conditions upon the chemical evolution of the halo population of our galaxy. Guided by our current knowledge of nucleosynthesis as a function of stellar mass occurring in stars and supernovae, we identify some interesting constraints that these combined observational and theoretical considerations impose upon theories of the early history of our galaxy.

Type
VII. Abundance Constraints on Stellar Evolution, Nucleosynthesis, and Cosmological Theories
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988 

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