The M dwarf problem: Fe and Ti abundances in a volume-limited sample of M dwarf stars

preprint2020arXivOpen access

Abstract

We report iron and titanium abundance measurements from high resolution spectra in a volume-limited sample of 106 M0 and M0.5 dwarf stars. The sample includes stars north of the celestial equator and closer than 29 parsecs. The results imply that there is an M dwarf problem similar to the previously known G dwarf problem, in that the fraction of low-metallicity M dwarfs is not large enough to fit simple closed-box models of Galactic chemical evolution. This volume-limited sample avoids many of the statistical uncertainties present in a previous study using a brightness-limited sample of M dwarf stars

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