Stellar production sites of heavy elements and their observable imprints on the Milky Way (A10)

• Subject Area: Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Term: from 2017 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 138713538

Recent stellar surveys and numerical simulations provide us with a detailed picture of the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. To fully exploit the potential of these studies, an improved char-acterization of the production sites of heavy elements is mandatory. We aim to develop, validate, and apply a new model for Fe-peak and r-process elements in an approach that combines ob-servational constraints obtained from state-of-the-art 3-D non-local thermodynamical equilibrium abundance measurements in Galactic disk and halo stars with hydrodynamical simulations of thermonuclear supernovae and neutron star mergers covering a wide parameter range.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 881: The Milky Way System
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Heads: Dr. Andreas Bauswein, since 1/2019; Dr. Maria Bergemann, since 1/2019; Professor Dr. Friedrich Röpke