Hydrostatic and explosive $α$-element chemical abundances of Milky Way globular clusters, halo substructures, and satellite galaxies
Stellar atmospheric element abundance ratios of stars retain information about their birth conditions, helping elucidate their origin and nature. In this letter, we analyse and contrast the hydrostatic and explosive $α$-element abundance ratios, and the ratio of the two (the hex ratio), for a large sample of Galactic globular clusters (GCs), halo substructures, satellite galaxies, and the Milky Way high-/low-$α$ discs using data from the $APOGEE$ survey. Our results show that: $i$) Milky Way …
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