Isotopic Titanium Abundances In Local M Dwarfs

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2009-07

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Chavez, Joy
Lambert, David L.

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Relative abundances of the five stable isotopes of titanium (Ti-46 to Ti-50) are measured for 11 M dwarfs belonging to the thin disk (four stars), thick disk (three stars), the halo (one star), and either the thick or the thin disk (three stars). Over the metallicity range of the sample (-1 < [Fe/H] < 0), the isotopic ratios are approximately constant at the solar system ratios. There is no discernible difference between the isotopic ratios for thin and thick disk stars. Isotopic ratios are in fair accord with recent calculations of Galactic chemical evolution despite the fact that such calculations underpredict [Ti/Fe] by about 0.4 dex at all metallicities.

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Chavez, Joy, and David L. Lambert. "Isotopic Titanium Abundances in Local M Dwarfs." The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 699, No. 2 (Jul., 2009): 1906.