Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-10-04
Astrophys.J.479:752,1997
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
20 pages, latex, 9 ps figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/303932
The prediction of standard chemical evolution models of higher abundances of He3 at the solar and present-day epochs than are observed indicates a possible problem with the yield of He3 for stars in the range of 1-3 solar masses. Because He3 is one of the nuclei produced in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), it is noted that galactic and stellar evolution uncertainties necessarily relax constraints based on He3. We incorporate into chemical evolution models which include outflow, the new yields for He3 of Boothroyd & Malaney (1995) which predict that low mass stars are net destroyers of He3. Since these yields do not account for the high \he3/H ratio observed in some planetary nebulae, we also consider the possibility that some fraction of stars in the 1 - 3 solar mass range do not destroy their He3 in theirpost main-sequence phase. We also consider the possibility that the gas expelled by stars in these mass ranges does not mix with the ISM instantaneously thus delaying the He3 produced in these stars, according to standard yields, from reaching the ISM. In general, we find that the Galactic D and He3 abundances can be fit regardless of whether the primordial D/H value is high (2 x 10^{-4}) or low (2.5 x 10^{-5}).
Olive Keith A.
Schramm David N.
Scully Sean
Truran Jame. W.
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