Discovery of HE 1523–0901, a Strongly r-Process-enhanced Metal-poor Star with Detected Uranium^*

Author affiliations

¹ Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston, ACT 2611, Australia

² McDonald Observatory and Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station, C1400, Austin, TX 78712

³ Department of Astronomy and Space Physics, Uppsala University, Box 515, SE-751-20 Uppsala, Sweden

⁴ Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg, Gojenbergsweg 112, D-21029 Hamburg, Germany

⁵ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637

⁶ Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Mail 31, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC 3122, Australia

⁷ Department of Physics and Astronomy, CSCE (Center for the Study of Cosmic Evolution), and JINA (Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1116

⁸ Center for Space Astrophysics, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea

⁹ Space Astrophysics Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MC 405-47, Pasadena, CA 91125