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Fluorine Abundances in the Galactic Disk
Observatório Nacional, Saõ Cristóvaõ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0151-5212
Observatório Nacional, Saõ Cristóvaõ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; University of Arizona, Tucson, 85719, AZ, United States.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6476-0576
National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, 85719, AZ, United States.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0134-2024
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 22904, VA, United States.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2969-2445
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2019 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal, ISSN 0004-637X, E-ISSN 1538-4357, Vol. 885, no 2, article id 139Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The chemical evolution of fluorine is investigated in a sample of Milky Way red giant stars that span a significant range in metallicity from [Fe/H] ? ?1.3 to 0.0 dex. Fluorine abundances are derived from vibration-rotation lines of HF in high-resolution infrared spectra near 2.335 ?m. The red giants are members of the thin and thick disk/halo, with two stars being likely members of the outer disk Monoceros overdensity. At lower metallicities, with [Fe/H] < ?0.4 to ?0.5, the abundance of F varies as a primary element with respect to the Fe abundance, with a constant subsolar value of [F/Fe] ? ?0.3 to ?0.4 dex. At larger metallicities, however, [F/Fe] increases rapidly with [Fe/H] and displays a near-secondary behavior with respect to Fe. Comparisons with various models of chemical evolution suggest that in the low-metallicity regime (dominated here by thick-disk stars), a primary evolution of F-19 with Fe, with a subsolar [F/Fe] value that roughly matches the observed plateau, can be reproduced by a model incorporating neutrino nucleosynthesis in the aftermath of the core collapse in Type II supernovae. A primary behavior for [F/Fe] at low metallicity is also observed for a model including rapidly rotating low-metallicity massive stars, but this overproduces [F/Fe] at low metallicity. The thick-disk red giants in our sample span a large range of galactocentric distance (R-g ? 6?13.7 kpc) yet display a roughly constant value of [F/Fe], indicating a very flat gradient (with a slope of 0.02 0.03 dex kpc(?1)) of this elemental ratio over a significant portion of the Galaxy having ?Z? 300 pc away from the Galaxy midplane.

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Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), 2019. Vol. 885, no 2, article id 139
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18680DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab45f1ISI: 000499344400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85075325439OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-18680DiVA, id: diva2:1477045
Available from: 2020-10-16 Created: 2020-10-16 Last updated: 2024-06-17Bibliographically approved

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