Investigation for the enrichment pattern of the element abundances in r+s star HE 0338-3945: a special r-II star?

摘要

The very metal-poor star HE 0338-3945 shows a double-enhanced pattern of theneutron-capture elements. The study to this sample could make people gain abetter understanding of s- and r-process nucleosynthesis at low metallicity.Using a parametric model,we find that the abundance pattern of theneutron-capture elements could be best explained by a binary system formed in amolecular cloud, which had been polluted by r-process material. The observedabundance pattern of C and N can be explained by an AGB model(Karakas &Lattanzio 2007), . Combing with the parameters obtained from Cui & Zhang(2006), we suggest that the initial mass of the AGB companion is most likely tobe about 2.5Msun, which excludes the possibility of forming a type-1.5supernova. By comparing with the observational abundance pattern of CS22892-052, we find that the dominating production of O should accompany withthe production of the heavy r-process elements of r+s stars. Similar to r-IIstars, the heavy r-process elements are not produced in conjunction with allthe light elements from Na to Fe group. The abundance pattern of the light andr-process elements for HE 0338-3945 is very close to the pattern of the r-IIstar CS 22892-052. So, we suggest that this star HE 0338-3945 should be aspecial r-II star.