Oxygen and sulphur abundances of solar-type stars of the solar-neighborhood
Abstract
The Sun has typical abundances of both oxygen and sulphur for its metallicity, age and galactic orbit, when compared to the nearby solar-type stars. This result favors a solution of the old riddle of the solar overabundance in oxygen with respect to the local interstellar medium as caused by the recent infall of metal-poor gas over the disk, rather than the competing explanations of an outward migration of the Sun from a inner, and metal richer, birthplace in the disk, or a last-minute supernova which might have enriched the proto-solar nebula.
- Publication:
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From Lithium to Uranium: Elemental Tracers of Early Cosmic Evolution
- Pub Date:
- 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921305005776
- Bibcode:
- 2005IAUS..228..269D