Cosmological Implications of He-3 Destruction on the Red Giant Branch

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1995-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9512133v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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12 pages, plain TeX, 4 postscript figures (ApJ, submitted). See also http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/~boothroy/

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Observations of stellar CNO isotope ratios indicate the presence of additional mixing processes on the red giant branch. An estimate of the resulting stellar He-3 depletion is made, as a function of stellar mass and metallicity. Based on stellar nucleosynthesis and galactic chemical evolution calculations, we determine the degree to which the destruction of He-3 due to such extra mixing processes can influence the inferred primordial abundance of ( D + He-3 ). We find that the extra mixing processes may increase the upper limit of the inferred primordial ( D + He-3 ) / H ratio by about 20%. The implications of this for baryonic dark matter bounds, and constraints on the relativistic degrees of freedom in the early universe, are discussed.

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