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The chemical composition of the Sun

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We present a redetermination of the solar abundances of all available elements. The new results have very recently been published by Asplund et al. (Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 47:481, 2009). The basic ingredients of this work, the main results and some of their implications are summarized hereafter.

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  1. Centre Spatial de Liège, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

    N. Grevesse

  2. Institut d’Astrophysique et de Géophysique, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

    N. Grevesse

  3. Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany

    M. Asplund

  4. Observatoire Royal de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium

    A. J. Sauval

  5. Department of Physics and Oskar Klein Center for Cosmoparticle Physics, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

    P. Scott

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Grevesse, N., Asplund, M., Sauval, A.J. et al. The chemical composition of the Sun. Astrophys Space Sci 328, 179–183 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-010-0288-z

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