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HARPS Abundances with Korg I: 22 Element Abundances for 426 Red Giant Stars
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A solar energy research paper on HARPS Abundances with Korg I: 22 Element Abundances for 426 Red Giant Stars.
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Large stellar surveys have revealed the global abundance structure of the Milky Way, but small high-fidelity spectral samples offer a critical complement of nucleosynthetic depth. We aim to access the encoded information in an ensemble of abundances by leveraging highest-quality spectra. We used HARPS spectra (R=115,000) to determine (Teff, log(g), [M/H], vmic and vsini) and 22 element abundances (Na, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Ni, Zn, Sr, Y, Zr, Mo, Ba, La, Ce, Nd and Eu) for 426 red giant stars at a median internal precision of $\sim$0.02 dex evaluated from analysing repeat observations of a subset of stars. Stellar parameters and line-by-line abundances were obtained using the modern spectral synthesis code Korg -- the first time it has been used for HARPS. Comparisons with the literature reveal good overall agreement. A minor 0.1 dex offset in metallicity and specific discrepancies in individual element abundances are attributed to local thermal equilibrium assumptions and inaccuracies in atomic data. We show that 22 individual elements can be collapsed into a generative 6-parameter latent-variable model of shared enrichment patterns expressed in different per-star fractions; this model accurately generates the abundances with a median $χ_{reduced}^2 = 6$. We report element gradients with respect to selected elements from different nucleosynthetic families. These gradients are a measure of inter-element production efficiencies and indicate multiple r-process production sites. Our analysis shows that abundances occupy a low-dimensional subspace, but joint (gradient-based) information encodes nucleosynthetic signatures. We have developed a Korg-pipeline to apply across evolutionary states on high-resolution spectra to provide our precision catalogue to serve as empirical constraints on chemical evolution and as a set of benchmark red giant abundance measurements.
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