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The R Process and Neutron Star Mergers
A year prior in 2016, my former grad student and I discovered a small dwarf galaxy that is currently orbiting the Milky Way. That was full of ancient iron deficient stars that also had a strong signature of these heavy elements like 181523. And so now we find reticulum two, and it has these... We already talked about low strontium and barium abundances and the oldest stars,. This is what we had seen anecdotally in the ancient dwarf galaxy set us surrounding us.