Snapshots of r-process production in the Milky Way disk

arXiv:2609.36013 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Comments: Submitted to MNRAS. 16 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables in the appendices. Alt text included for figures. Comments very welcome!

Code: https://github.com/vmplacco/linemake

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Abundance — 187× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Metallicity — 37× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anti-correlation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• European Space Agency — 1× in this paper
• Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• National Institute for Standards and Technology — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Birth of the Galactic Disk Revealed by the H3 Survey
• Observations of R-Process Stars in the Milky Way and Dwarf Galaxies
• The R-Process Alliance: Actinide Abundances, Variation, and Evolution in Metal-Poor Stars

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