Abstract

We have been using VLT – FLAMES facilities to obtain spectra of large samples of stars from the Large Magellanic Cloud in order to infer chemical abundances of some key elements. Target stars have been selected trying to sample as much as possible the hole metallicity range of the population. In the present paper we continue our report on chemical abundances for stars in the Inner Disk of the LMC. In our previous work (Pompéia, Hill & Spite 2004) we have found a peculiar pattern for such stars, with a deficiency of α and Na relative to stars of the Galaxy. For the iron-peak elements we found an offset when compared to stars from the Galaxy which is difficult to explain when taking into account the present nucleosynthetic theories. In the present paper we report abundances derived from line synthesis for Y, Zr, Ba, Cu and Sc. We have found an interesting behavior for the s-process elements: while the heavy-s elements show supersolar values and overlap the galactic samples, the light-s elements are underabundant with many subsolar values. Cu and Sc show deficient patterns compared to MW stars of similar metallicities.

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