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  • Placco, Vinicius M; Almeida-Fernandes, Felipe; Holmbeck, Erika M; Roederer, Ian U; Mardini, Mohammad K; Hayes, Christian R; Venn, Kim; Chiboucas, Kristin; Deibert, Emily; Gamen, Roberto; Jeong-Eun Heo; Jeong, Miji; Kalari, Venu; Eder Martioli; Xu, Siyi; Diaz, Ruben; Gomez-Jimenez, Manuel; Henderson, David; Prado, Pablo; Quiroz, Carlos; Ruiz-Carmona, Roque; Simpson, Chris; Urrutia, Cristian; McConnachie, Alan W; Pazder, John; Burley, Gregory; Ireland, Michael; Waller, Fletcher; Berg, Trystyn A M; J Gordon Robertson; Hartman, Zachary; Jones, David O; Labrie, Kathleen; Perez, Gabriel; Ridgway, Susan; Thomas-Osip, Joanna

    arXiv.org, 10/2023
    Paper, Journal Article

    We report on the chemo-dynamical analysis of SPLUS J142445.34-254247.1, an extremely metal-poor halo star enhanced in elements formed by the rapid neutron-capture process. This star was first selected as a metal-poor candidate from its narrow-band S-PLUS photometry and followed up spectroscopically in medium-resolution with Gemini South/GMOS, which confirmed its low-metallicity status. High-resolution spectroscopy was gathered with GHOST at Gemini South, allowing for the determination of chemical abundances for 36 elements, from carbon to thorium. At Fe/H=-3.39, SPLUS J1424-2542 is one of the lowest metallicity stars with measured Th and has the highest logeps(Th/Eu) observed to date, making it part of the "actinide-boost" category of r-process enhanced stars. The analysis presented here suggests that the gas cloud from which SPLUS J1424-2542 was formed must have been enriched by at least two progenitor populations. The light-element (Z<=30) abundance pattern is consistent with the yields from a supernova explosion of metal-free stars with 11.3-13.4 Msun, and the heavy-element (Z>=38) abundance pattern can be reproduced by the yields from a neutron star merger (1.66Msun and 1.27Msun) event. A kinematical analysis also reveals that SPLUS J1424-2542 is a low-mass, old halo star with a likely in-situ origin, not associated with any known early merger events in the Milky Way.