Enhanced alpha-elements and He-burning Population II stars

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Helium, Horizontal Branch Stars, Nuclear Astrophysics, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Spectrophotometry

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In view of Population II star spectroscopic analyses indicating an overabundance of such alpha-elements as O with respect to Fe, new opacities have been computed for these stars. A grid of evolutionary sequences of He-burning models for low-mass stars is obtained which covers the He-burning phase from the Zero-Age Horizontal Branch up to the onset of thermal pulses in an advanced phase of He-shell burning. This is done on the basis of a set of stellar-parameter assumptions suggested by the opportunity of covering the range of values expected in galactic globular cluster HB stars (under the further assumption of an original He abundance of 0.23, as adopted throughout the recent literature).

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