Disk and halo stars C, O and Fe abundances

We use the corrections in a re-analysis of carbon, oxygen, and iron in 187 F and G dwarfs in the Galactic disk and halo. Applying the differential 3D non-LTE corrections to 1D LTE abundances visibly reduces the scatter in the abundance plots. The thick disk and high- halo population rise in carbon and oxygen with decreasing metallicity, reaching a maximum of [C/Fe]~=0.2 and a plateau of [O/Fe]~=0.6 at [Fe/H]~=~1.0.

The low- halo population is qualitatively similar, albeit offset towards lower metallicities and with larger scatter. Nevertheless, these populations overlap in the [C/O] versus [O/H] plane, decreasing to a plateau of [C/O]~=0.6 below [O/H]~=1.0. In the thin-disk, stars having confirmed planet detections tend to have higher values of C/O at given [O/H]; this potential signature of planet formation is only apparent after applying the abundance corrections to the 1D LTE results.

Our grids of line-by-line abundance corrections are publicly available and can readily be used to improve the accuracy of spectroscopic analyses of late-type stars.