Fast rotating massive stars and the origin of the abundance patterns in galactic globular clusters

Details Fast rotating massive stars and the origin of the abundance patterns in galactic globular clusters Fast rotating massive stars and the origin of the abundance patterns in galactic globular clusters

2006-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611379v1

Astron.Astrophys.464:1029-1044,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 17 figures, accepted by A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20066013

We propose the Wind of Fast Rotating Massive Stars scenario to explain the origin of the abundance anomalies observed in globular clusters. We compute and present models of fast rotating stars with initial masses between 20 and 120 Msun for an initial metallicity Z=0.0005 ([Fe/H]=-1.5). We discuss the nucleosynthesis in the H-burning core of these objects and present the chemical composition of their ejecta. We consider the impact of uncertainties in the relevant nuclear reaction rates. Fast rotating stars reach the critical velocity at the beginning of their evolution and remain near the critical limit during the rest of the main sequence and part of the He-burning phase. As a consequence they lose large amounts of material through a mechanical wind which probably leads to the formation of a slow outflowing disk. The material in this slow wind is enriched in H-burning products and presents abundance patterns similar to the chemical anomalies observed in globular cluster stars. In particular, the C, N, O, Na and Li variations are well reproduced by our model. However the rate of the 24Mg(p,gamma) has to be increased by a factor 1000 around 50 MK in order to reproduce the whole amplitude of the observed Mg-Al anticorrelation. We discuss how the long-lived low-mass stars currently observed in globular clusters could have formed out of the slow wind material ejected by massive stars.

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