Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-06-19
Astrophys.J. 573 (2002) L129-L132
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters. 4 pages, 2 fgures
Scientific paper
10.1086/342054
Strong evidence for deep mixing has been uncovered for slowly rotating F, and A stars of the main sequence. As the accretion/diffusion model for the formation of lboo stars is heavily dependent on mixing in superficial regions, such deep mixing may have important repercussions on our understanding of these stars. It is shown that deep mixing at a level similar to that of FmAm stars increases the amount of matter that needs to be accreted by the stars with respect with the standard models by some three orders of magnitude. It is also shown that significantly larger accretion rates have to be maintained, as high as $10^{-11}$~M$_\sun yr^{-1}$, to prevent meridional circulation from canceling the effect of accretion. The existence of old ($\approx 1$~Gyr) is not a likely outcome of the present models for accretion/diffusion with or without deep mixing. It is argued that lboo stars are potentially very good diagnostics of mixing mechanisms in moderately fast rotators.
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