MANIFESTATION OF STELLAR EVOLUTION IN METAL-DEFICIENT STARS

Abstract

Metal-poor stars allow us to establish the early history of the Milky Way, furthermore the stars on advanced evolution stage (e.g. giants, AGB stars etc.) give the opportunity to research the peculiarities of stellar evolution at low metallicity. On the base of the 11-m Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) spectra obtained using HRS fibre-fed echelle-spectrograph during 2018–2020, the atmospheric parameters and elemental abundances of four metal-poor stars HE 1523-0901, HD 6268, HD 121135, and HD 195636 ( [Fe/H] ~ -1.5 – -3.0) have been obtained. The iron abundance was determined based on the equivalent widths of absorption lines. The carbon abundance was obtained using the molecular synthesis fitting for the CH (4300-4330 ÅÅ) region, nitrogen from CN at 3883 Å, oxygen from [O] line at 6300 Å and IR triplet at 7770 Å The relationship between the chemical enrichment of stars and their stellar evolution is considered. It may be associated with the processes of mixing inside the stars, and the mechanisms of matter transfer during stellar evolution.