CNO enrichment by rotating AGB stars in globular clusters

Details CNO enrichment by rotating AGB stars in globular clusters CNO enrichment by rotating AGB stars in globular clusters

2009-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/0907.5200v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Accepted in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 7 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

AGB stars have long been held responsible for the important star-to-star variations in light elements observed in Galactic globular clusters. We analyse the main impacts of a first generation of rotating intermediate-mass stars on the chemical properties of second-generation globular cluster stars. The rotating models were computed without magnetic fields and without the effects of internal gravity waves. They account for the transports by meridional currents and turbulence. We computed the evolution of both standard and rotating stellar models with initial masses between 2.5 and 8 Msun within the metallicity range covered by Galactic globular clusters. During central He-burning, rotational mixing transports fresh CO-rich material from the core towards the hydrogen-burning shell, leading to the production of primary 14N. In stars more massive than M > 4 Msun, the convective envelope reaches this reservoir during the second dredge-up episode, resulting in a large increase in the total C+N+O content at the stellar surface and in the stellar wind. The corresponding pollution depends on the initial metallicity. At low- and intermediate-metallicity, it is at odds with the constancy of C+N+O observed among globular cluster low-mass stars. With the given input physics, our models suggest that massive rotating AGB stars have not shaped the abundance patterns observed in low- and intermediate-metallicity globular clusters. Our non-rotating models, on the other hands, do not predict surface C+N+O enhancements, hence are in a better position as sources of the chemical anomalies in globular clusters showing the constancy of the C+N+O. However at the moment, there is no reason to think that intermediate mass stars were not rotating.

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