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The R-Process Alliance: Hunting for gold in the near-UV spectrum of 2MASS J05383296âÂ?Â? 5904280
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Astronomy.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6154-8983
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Number of Authors: 132025 (English)In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, ISSN 0004-6361, E-ISSN 1432-0746, Vol. 697, article id A127Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Context. Over the past few years, the R-Process Alliance (RPA) has successfully carried out a search for stars that are highly enhanced in elements produced via the rapid neutron-capture (r-) process. In particular, the RPA has identified a number of relatively bright, highly r-process-enhanced (r-II) stars, suitable for observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), facilitating abundance derivation of elements such as gold (Au) and cadmium (Cd). Aims. This paper presents the detailed abundances derived for the metal-poor ([Fe/H] = - 2.55) highly r-process-enhanced ([Eu/Fe] = +1.29) r-II star 2MASS J05383296âÂ?Â? 5904280. Methods. One-dimensional local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) elemental abundances were derived via equivalent width and spectral synthesis using high-resolution high signal-to-noise near-UV HST/STIS and optical Magellan/MIKE spectra. Results. Abundances were determined for 43 elements, including 26 neutron-capture elements. In particular, abundances of the rarely studied elements Nb, Mo, Cd, Lu, Os, Pt, and Au are derived from the HST spectrum. These results, combined with RPA near-UV observations of two additional r-II stars, increase the number of Cd abundances derived for r-process-enriched stars from seven to ten and Au abundances from four to seven. A large star-to-star scatter is detected for both of these elements, highlighting the need for more detections enabling further investigations, specifically into possible non-LTE effects.

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2025. Vol. 697, article id A127
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Stars: abundances, Stars: chemically peculiar, Stars: kinematics and dynamics, Stars: low-mass, Stars: Population II
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-243929DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202554123ISI: 001488693800017Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105005511525OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-243929DiVA, id: diva2:1966464
Available from: 2025-06-10 Created: 2025-06-10 Last updated: 2025-06-10Bibliographically approved

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