Early Galactic Evolution of Carbon, Nitrogen and Oxygen

Israelian, G.; Garcia Lopez, R. J.; Rebolo, R.
Referencia bibliográfica

The Evolution of the Milky Way: stars versus clusters. Edited by Francesca Matteucci and Franco Giovannelli. Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, P. O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, ISBN 0-7923-6679-4, p.35

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2000
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Descripción
We present results on carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen abundances for a sample of unevolved metal-poor stars with metallicities in the range -0.3< [Fe/H]< -3. Oxygen abundances derived from different indicators are compared showing consistently that in the range 0.3 >[Fe/H]>-3.0, the [O/Fe] ratio increases from approximately 0 to 1. We find a good agreement between abundances based on the forbidden line, the OH and IR triplet lines when gravities based on Hipparcos} parallaxes are considered for the sample stars. Gravities derived from LTE ionization balance in metal-poor stars with [Fe/H]< -1 are likely too low, and could be responsible for an underestimation of the oxygen abundances derived using the [OI] line. [C/Fe] and [N/Fe] ratios appear to be constant, independently of metallicity, in the same range. However, they show larger scatter than oxygen at a given metallicity, which could reflect the larger variety of stellar production sites for these other elements.