2023ApJ...944...43S

Query : 2023ApJ...944...43S

2023ApJ...944...43S - Astrophys. J., 944, 43 (2023/February-2)

Timing the r-process Enrichment of the Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II.

SIMON J.D., BROWN T.M., MUTLU-PAKDIL B., JI A.P., DRLICA-WAGNER A., AVILA R.J., MARTINEZ-VAZQUEZ C.E., LI T.S., BALBINOT E., BECHTOL K., FREBEL A., GEHA M., HANSEN T.T., JAMES D.J., PACE A.B., AGUENA M., ALVES O., ANDRADE-OLIVEIRA F., ANNIS J., BACON D., BERTIN E., BROOKS D., BURKE D.L., CARNERO ROSELL A., CARRASCO KIND M., CARRETERO J., COSTANZI M., DA COSTA L.N., DE VICENTE J., DESAI S., DOEL P., EVERETT S., FERRERO I., FRIEMAN J., GARCIA-BELLIDO J., GATTI M., GERDES D.W., GRUEN D., GRUENDL R.A., GSCHWEND J., GUTIERREZ G., HINTON S.R., HOLLOWOOD D.L., HONSCHEID K., KUEHN K., KUROPATKIN N., MARSHALL J.L., MENA-FERNANDEZ J., MIQUEL R., PALMESE A., PAZ-CHINCHON F., PEREIRA M.E.S., PIERES A., PLAZAS MALAGON A.A., RAVERI M., RODRIGUEZ-MONROY M., SANCHEZ E., SANTIAGO B., SCARPINE V., SEVILLA-NOARBE I., SMITH M., SUCHYTA E., SWANSON M.E.C., TARLE G., TO C., VINCENZI M., WEAVERDYCK N. and WILKINSON R.D.

Abstract (from CDS):

The ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Reticulum II (Ret II) exhibits a unique chemical evolution history, with ${72}_{-12}^{+10}$% of its stars strongly enhanced in r-process elements. We present deep Hubble Space Telescope photometry of Ret II and analyze its star formation history. As in other ultra-faint dwarfs, the color-magnitude diagram is best fit by a model consisting of two bursts of star formation. If we assume that the bursts were instantaneous, then the older burst occurred around the epoch of reionization, forming ∼80% of the stars in the galaxy, while the remainder of the stars formed ∼3 Gyr later. When the bursts are allowed to have nonzero durations, we obtain slightly better fits. The best-fitting model in this case consists of two bursts beginning before reionization, with approximately half the stars formed in a short (100 Myr) burst and the other half in a more extended period lasting 2.6 Gyr. Considering the full set of viable star formation history models, we find that 28% of the stars formed within 500 ± 200 Myr of the onset of star formation. The combination of the star formation history and the prevalence of r-process-enhanced stars demonstrates that the r-process elements in Ret II must have been synthesized early in its initial star-forming phase. We therefore constrain the delay time between the formation of the first stars in Ret II and the r-process nucleosynthesis to be less than 500 Myr. This measurement rules out an r-process source with a delay time of several Gyr or more, such as GW170817.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Dwarf galaxies - Local Group - Stellar populations - Galaxy ages - HST photometry - Nucleosynthesis - R-process

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Number of rows : 8
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 NAME Magellanic Clouds GrG 03 00 -71.0           ~ 7988 0
2 NAME Reticulum II G 03 35 42.1 -54 02 57           ~ 375 0
3 NAME LMC G 05 23 34.6 -69 45 22     0.4     ~ 19090 0
4 NAME Leo IV LSB 11 32 57.0 -00 32 00     15.1     ~ 419 1
5 GrW 170817 GWE 13 09 48.0850 -23 22 53.343           ~ 2683 0
6 M 92 GlC 17 17 07.39 +43 08 09.4     6.52     ~ 2240 0
7 NAME Tuc III G 23 56.6 -59 36           ~ 229 0
8 NAME Local Group GrG ~ ~           ~ 9325 0

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