Abundances in the symbiotic star AG Draconis: the barium-symbiotic connection.

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Nov 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996a%26a...315..179s&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.315, p.179-193

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

71

Binaries: Symbiotic, Stars: Individual: Ag Dra, Stars: Abundances, Stars: Peculiar

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An abundance analysis of the yellow symbiotic system AG Draconis reveals it to be a metal-poor K-giant ([Fe/H]=-1.3) which is enriched in the heavy s-process elements. This star thus provides a link between the symbiotic stars and the binary barium and CH stars which are also s-process enriched. These binary systems, which exhibit overabundances of the heavy elements, owe their abundance peculiarities to mass transfer from thermally-pulsing asymptotic giant branch stars, which have since evolved to become white-dwarf companions of the cool stars we now view as the chemically peculiar primaries. A comparison of the heavy-element abundance distribution in AG Dra with theoretical nucleosynthesis calculations shows that the s-process is defined by a relatively large neutron exposure (τ=1.3mb^-1^), while an analysis of the rubidium abundance suggests that the s-process occurred at a neutron density of about 2x10^8^cm^-3^. The derived spectroscopic orbit of AG Dra is similar to the orbits of barium and CH stars. Because the luminosity function of low-metallicity K giants is skewed towards higher luminosities by about 2 magnitudes relative to solar-metallicity giants, it is argued that the lower metallicity K giants have larger mass-loss rates. It is this larger mass-loss rate that drives the symbiotic phenomena in AG Dra and we suggest that the other yellow symbiotic stars are probably low-metallicity objects as well.

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