A critical investigation on the discrepancy between the observational and theoretical Red Giant luminosity function "Bump"

Details A critical investigation on the discrepancy between the observational and theoretical Red Giant luminosity function "Bump" A critical investigation on the discrepancy between the observational and theoretical Red Giant luminosity function "Bump"

1997-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9702029v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 5 figures, Tex file, mnrass.sty style included. To appear in MNRAS

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New theoretical evaluations of the RGB luminosity function 'bump' and the ZAHB luminosity covering the range of metallicities typical of galactic globular cluster are presented. The variation of the theoretical RGB bump and ZAHB levels due to the metallicity, original helium content, mixing length value, age, mass loss, bolometric corrections, opacities and equation of state adopted in the evolutionary models is also discussed. These new prescriptions have been taken into account for casting light on a longstanding astrophysical problem connected with the Red Giant Branch evolutionary phase, namely the discrepancy between the observational and the theoretical luminosity of RGB bump. A sample of globular clusters with accurate evaluations of the bump luminosity and spectroscopical metallicity determinations has been selected. The Zero Age Horizontal Branch luminosity at the RR-Lyrae instability strip has been evaluated as accurately as possible, and the observational luminosity difference between the RGB bump and the ZAHB has been compared with the theoretical values. It is shown that there is no significant disagreement between observations and canonical stellar models. The possible applications of this result are also briefly discussed.

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