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Oxford University Press (OUP), Publications of Astronomical Society of Japan, 2(69)

DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psw129

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Lithium in CEMP-no stars: A new constraint on the lithium depletion mechanism in the early universe

Journal article published in 2016 by Tadafumi Matsuno, Wako Aoki, Takuma Suda ORCID, Haining Li
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Abstract

Most of relatively warm, unevolved metal-poor stars ($T_{\rm eff}\gtrsim 5800\,\mathrm{K}$ and $[{\rm Fe/H}]\lesssim -1.5$) exhibit almost constant lithium abundances, irrespective of metallicity or effective temperature, and thus form the so-called Spite plateau. This was originally interpreted as arising from lithium created by the Big Bang nucleosynthesis. Recent observations, however, have revealed that ultra metal-poor stars (UMP stars; $[\mathrm{Fe/H}]