Detailed Abundance Determination of Metal-Poor Stars with X-Shooter II. - Chemically Disentangling the Halo, Disk and GSE

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract We present a detailed chemical analysis of seven extremely metal-poor (EMP) star candidates observed with X-Shooter, combining them with 16 EMP candidates from Paper I. We measured abundances for 16 elements, showing excellent agreement with previously published results. The sample was further extended using high-resolution literature data for 315 metal-poor stars. The full sample was then kinematically separated into prograde disk, retrograde disk, Gaia-Sausage Enceladus (GSE) and halo classifications. Combining dynamics with chemistry, we demonstrate that the prograde disk exhibits a distinct negative linear trend in [Sc/Mg] with increasing metallicity, with a slope of −0.6 dex per dex. This contrasts with the halo trend at −0.04 dex per dex, a difference significant at the 3.95σ level. Within the metallicity range −4.2 ≤ [Fe/H] ≤ −1.9, the prograde disk trend is driven by low [Mg/Fe] at lower metallicities, along with low [Sc/Fe] at higher metallicities. This could be due to reduced early Mg enrichment in the progenitor prograde disk, followed by subsequent Mg enrichment, possibly associated with a later gas accretion event. However, the physical origin of the higher-metallicity Sc depletion remains unexplained by current nucleosynthesis models. The result remains significant at the >3σ level across kinematic classifications derived from a different Galactic potential. Additionally, we also identified an r-I star with enhanced Ti, moderately-enhanced Sc, and depleted in C (unrelated to its evolutionary state). These abundances suggest a massive jet-induced hypernova progenitor, though a measurement of Zn is needed to verify this.
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Authors B.G. Lowe, L. Casagrande, Thomas Nordlander, Gary S Da Costa, N. Christlieb
Journal monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Year 2026
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10.1093/mnras/stag1504
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag1504
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