Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-07-24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
22 pages, 8 figures included; submitted to A&A
Scientific paper
Star-to-star abundance variations of C, N, O, Na and Al in globular-cluster red giants have been recently supplemented by the finding that [Mg/Fe] is depleted in stars with extremely large [Al/Fe] (Shetrone 1996a). This and other new spectroscopic results allow us to test current models of stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis, as well as those of the formation and chemical enrichment of globular clusters. In an effort to explain self-consistently these observations we have considered two possibilities: (1) a deep mixing scenario which assumes that in red giants some kind of (extra)mixing transports products of nuclear reactions from the hydrogen burning shell (HBS) to the base of the convective envelope; and (2) a combination of primordial and deep mixing scenarios. It is shown that (1) cannot account for the anticorrelation of [Mg/Fe] vs. [Al/Fe] without additional ad hoc assumptions, among which we identify a strong but still undetected low energy resonance in the reaction 24Mg(p,gamma)25Al, and episodical increases of the HBS temperature up to the value T approx. 74x10^6 K. In (2) intermediate mass AGB stars are assumed to produce the decreased 24Mg and increased 25Mg initial abundances in some globular-cluster low mass stars and Al is synthesized at the expense of 25Mg in the HBS and transported to the surface of the red giant by extramixing. We discuss advantages and deficiencies of both scenarios and propose some observational tests.
Da Costa Gary S.
Denissenkov Pavel A.
Norris John. E.
Weiss Alexander
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