Partial mixing and formation of the 13C pocket by internal gravity waves in asymptotic giant branch stars

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Apr 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003mnras.340..722d&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 340, Issue 3, pp. 722-732.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Convection, Nuclear Reactions, Nucleosynthesis, Abundances, Waves, Stars: Agb And Post-Agb, Stars: Evolution, Stars: Interiors

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We show that mixing by weak turbulence induced by internal gravity waves generated by turbulent gas motions near the base of the convective envelope presents a good alternative to convective overshooting and rotation-driven instabilities as a mechanism for partial mixing in thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. Such mixing ingests protons into the He/C-rich zone which leads to formation of the 13C pocket, a necessary ingredient of the current theory of the s-process under radiative conditions in low-mass AGB stars. We demonstrate that with appropriately chosen, physically reasonable parameters partial mixing by internal gravity waves may produce a much wider 13C pocket than convective overshooting limited to an extent compatible with observations.

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