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Summary

A measurement of vector boson ($V$) production in conjunction with a ${D}^{*}(2010{)}^{+}$ meson is presented. Using a data sample corresponding to $9.7\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{fb}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ of proton-antiproton collisions at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=1.96\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{TeV}$ produced by the Fermilab Tevatron, we reconstruct $V+{D}^{*+}$ samples with the CDF II detector. The ${D}^{*+}$ is fully reconstructed in the ${D}^{*}(2010{)}^{+}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{D}^{0}(\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{K}^{\ensuremath{-}}{\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}){\ensuremath{\pi}}^{+}$ decay mode. This technique is sensitive to the associated production of vector boson plus charm or bottom mesons. We measure the ratio of production cross sections $\ensuremath{\sigma}(W+{D}^{*})/\ensuremath{\sigm