Evolution of Li, Be and B in the Galaxy

Details Evolution of Li, Be and B in the Galaxy Evolution of Li, Be and B in the Galaxy

2001-10-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110327v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

26 pages, 5 figures, LaTeX. The Astrophysical Journal, in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/338036

In this paper we study the production of Li, Be and B nuclei by Galactic cosmic ray spallation processes. We include three kinds of processes: (i) spallation by light cosmic rays impinging on interstellar CNO nuclei (direct processes); (ii) spallation by CNO cosmic ray nuclei impinging on interstellar p and 4He (inverse processes); and (iii) alpha-alpha fusion reactions. The latter dominate the production of 6Li and 7Li. We calculate production rates for a closed-box Galactic model, verifying the quadratic dependence of the Be and B abundances for low values of Z. These are quite general results and are known to disagree with observations. We then show that the multi-zone multi-population model we used previously for other aspects of Galactic evolution produces quite good agreement with the linear trend observed at low metallicities without fine tuning. We argue that reported discrepancies between theory and observations do not represent a nucleosynthetic problem, but instead are the consequences of inaccurate treatments of Galactic evolution.

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