Reaction Rate Uncertainties: NeNa and MgAl in AGB Stars

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2006-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607536v1

PoSNIC-IX:038,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Presented at NIC-IX, International Symposium on Nuclear Astrophysics - Nuclei in the Cosmos - IX, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 2

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We study the effect of uncertainties in the proton-capture reaction rates of the NeNa and MgAl chains on nucleosynthesis due to the operation of hot bottom burning (HBB) in intermediate-mass asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. HBB nucleosynthesis is associated with the production of sodium, radioactive Al26 and the heavy magnesium isotopes, and it is possibly responsible for the O, Na, Mg and Al abundance anomalies observed in globular cluster stars. We model HBB with an analytic code based on full stellar evolution models so we can quickly cover a large parameter space. The reaction rates are varied first individually, then all together. This creates a knock-on effect, where an increase of one reaction rate affects production of an isotope further down the reaction chain. We find the yields of Ne22, Na23 and Al26 to be the most susceptible to current nuclear reaction rate uncertainties.

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