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Abundances of the elements in the halo stars, interaction between observation and theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

M. Spite
M. Spite*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon F-92195 Meudon principal Cedex, FRANCE

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The halo stars are very old stars formed at the beginning of the evolution of the Galaxy. Their main characteristic is that their atmosphere is very metal-poor since at the time of their birth, the matter of the Galaxy had been enriched by only a few number of supernovae. The first very metal deficient stars have been studied in the sixties: Baschek (1959), Aller and Greenstein(1960) Wallerstein et al. (1963). The stellar models used in these first studies were rather crude: the atmosphere of the stars was represented by only one layer with a mean temperature and a mean electronic pressure, the continuum opacity was supposed to be due to H− and included in addition only the contribution by Rayleigh scattering. Later rescaled solar models were used and finally, at the end of the seventies, grids of theoretical models more and more sophisticated became available.

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Stellar Abundances
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 189: Fundamental Stellar Properties: The Interaction Between Observation and Theory , 1997 , pp. 185 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997 

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