Evolution and Nucleosynthesis in Low‐Mass Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars. I. Formation of Population I Carbon Stars

1997 ◽  
Vol 478 (1) ◽  
pp. 332-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Straniero ◽  
Alessandro Chieffi ◽  
Marco Limongi ◽  
Maurizio Busso ◽  
Roberto Gallino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Giant Branch ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars ◽  
Carbon Stars ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Giant Branch Stars

scholarly journals IDENTIFICATION OF A CLASS OF LOW-MASS ASYMPTOTIC GIANT BRANCH STARS STRUGGLING TO BECOME CARBON STARS IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS

2015 ◽  
Vol 810 (2) ◽  
pp. 116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha L. Boyer ◽  
Iain McDonald ◽  
Sundar Srinivasan ◽  
Albert Zijlstra ◽  
Jacco Th. van Loon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Magellanic Clouds ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars ◽  
Carbon Stars ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Giant Branch Stars

scholarly journals EVOLUTION OF THERMALLY PULSING ASYMPTOTIC GIANT BRANCH STARS. IV. CONSTRAINING MASS LOSS AND LIFETIMES OF LOW MASS, LOW METALLICITY AGB STARS

2014 ◽  
Vol 790 (1) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Rosenfield ◽  
Paola Marigo ◽  
Léo Girardi ◽  
Julianne J. Dalcanton ◽  
Alessandro Bressan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Loss ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars ◽  
Agb Stars ◽  
Low Metallicity ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Giant Branch Stars

scholarly journals EVOLUTION, NUCLEOSYNTHESIS, AND YIELDS OF LOW-MASS ASYMPTOTIC GIANT BRANCH STARS AT DIFFERENT METALLICITIES

2009 ◽  
Vol 696 (1) ◽  
pp. 797-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Cristallo ◽  
O. Straniero ◽  
R. Gallino ◽  
L. Piersanti ◽  
I. Domínguez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Giant Branch ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Giant Branch Stars

scholarly journals Dust Formation in Stellar Photospheres

2000 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 313-324
Author(s):  
Takashi Tsuji
Keyword(s):  
Mass Loss ◽  
Radiation Pressure ◽  
Brown Dwarfs ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch ◽  
Dust Formation ◽  
Circumstellar Envelope ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars ◽  
Carbon Stars ◽  
Pulsating Stars ◽  
Giant Branch Stars

We examine whether dust forms in the photospheres of carbon-rich stars by referring to the case of red and brown dwarfs for which some observational clues on dust formation are now known. Dust may form in the photospheres of dwarf carbon stars and produce significant effects on both their structure and spectra. In carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch stars, dust probably forms in the photosphere, if not in the circumstellar envelope, and radiation pressure on dust is sufficient to expel the matter directly from the photosphere. This fact may play some role in mass-loss from cool luminous stars in general, including non-pulsating stars for which no successful mechanism of mass-loss was known.

scholarly journals The Chemical Composition of Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars-the s-process

1991 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 299-316
Author(s):  
David L. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Neutron Source ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars ◽  
Agb Stars ◽  
Intermediate Mass ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Giant Branch Stars

This review discusses the chemical composition of AGB stars in the light of predictions for intermediate-mass (3-8 M⊙, 22Ne(α,n) = the neutron source) and low-mass (< 3 M⊙, 13C(α,n) = the neutron source) stars. LM-AGB models can be constructed with envelopes having a composition quite similar to that of solar system material, the SiC grains recently discovered in meteorites, and real AGB stars in the sequence of spectral types M → S → C. Stellar counterparts of the IM-AGB models have yet to be discovered.

scholarly journals Lithium production by thermohaline mixing in low-mass, low-metallicity asymptotic giant branch stars

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S268) ◽  
pp. 405-410
Author(s):  
Richard J. Stancliffe ◽  
George C. Angelou ◽  
John C. Lattanzio
Keyword(s):  
Main Sequence ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch ◽  
Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars ◽  
Agb Stars ◽  
Low Metallicity ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Thermal Pulses ◽  
Giant Branch Stars

AbstractWe examine the effects of thermohaline mixing on the composition of the envelopes of low-metallicity asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. We have evolved models of 1, 1.5 and 2M⊙ and of metallicity Z = 10−4 from the pre-main sequence to the end of the thermal pulsing asymptotic giant branch with thermohaline mixing applied throughout the simulations. We find that the small amount of 3He that remains after the first giant branch is enough to drive thermohaline mixing on the AGB and that the mixing is most efficient in the early thermal pulses, with the efficiency dropping from pulse to pulse. We note a surprising increase in the 7Li abundance, with log10ϵ(7Li) reaching values of over 2.5 in the 1.5M⊙ model. It is thus possible to get stars which are both C- and Li-rich at the same time. We compare our models to measurements of carbon and lithium in carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars which have not yet reached the giant branch. These models can simultaneously reproduced the observed C and Li abundances of carbon-enhanced metal-poor turn-off stars that are Li-rich.

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