WIYN/Hydra Detection of Lithium Depletion in F Stars of the Young Open Cluster M35 and Implications for the Development of the Lithium Gap

Details WIYN/Hydra Detection of Lithium Depletion in F Stars of the Young Open Cluster M35 and Implications for the Development of the Lithium Gap WIYN/Hydra Detection of Lithium Depletion in F Stars of the Young Open Cluster M35 and Implications for the Development of the Lithium Gap

2004-08-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408052v1

Astrophys.J. 614 (2004) L65-L68

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 Pages, 3 figures. Accepted to ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/424689

We report discovery of significant depletion of Li on the surfaces of F dwarf stars in the 150-Myr-old open cluster M35, analagous to a feature in the 700-Myr-old Hyades cluster that has been referred to as the ``Li gap.'' We have caught the gap in the act of forming: using high resolution, high S/N, WIYN/Hydra observations, we detect Li in all but a few M35 F stars; the maximum depletion lies at least 0.6-0.8 dex below minimally depleted (or undepleted) stars. The M35 Li depletion region, a) is quite wide, with clear depletion seen from 6000K to 6700K or hotter; b) shows a significant dispersion in Li abundance at all T_eff, even with stars of the same T_eff; and c) contains undepleted stars (as well as depleted ones) in the (narrow) classical Hyades gap region, which itself shows no undepleted stars. All of these M35 Li depletion properties support rotationally-induced slow mixing as the primary physical mechanism that forms the gap, and argues against other proposed mechanisms, particularly diffusion and steady main sequence mass loss. When viewed in the context of the M35 Li depletion properties, the Hyades Li gap may well be wider than is usually recognized.

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