On intermediate-mass single stars and accreting white dwarfs as sources of neutron-rich isotopes

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Carbon Stars, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Mass, Stellar Mass Accretion, White Dwarf Stars, Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars, Helium, Hydrogen, Interstellar Matter, Isotopes, Late Stars, Neutrons, Nuclear Fusion, Stellar Envelopes

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Observations of optically luminous carbon stars in the Magellanic Clouds suggest that intermediate-mass stars lose their hydrogen-rich envelopes during the asymptotic giant-branch phase before they have made s-process isotopes, both in large quantities and in the solar system distribution. Thus a search for alternate sources of these isotopes in the convective helium-carbon region in accreting white dwarfs during helium shell flashes is recommended. A serious effort should be made to determine the bolometric magnitude of far-infrared carbon stars in the Magellanic clouds.

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