V453 Oph: a s-process enriched, but carbon-deficient RV Tauri star of low intrinsic metallicity

Details V453 Oph: a s-process enriched, but carbon-deficient RV Tauri star of low intrinsic metallicity V453 Oph: a s-process enriched, but carbon-deficient RV Tauri star of low intrinsic metallicity

2005-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504596v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20041858

This paper reports the detection of a heavy element enriched RV Tauri variable with an abundance pattern that differs significantly from a standard s-process enriched object: V453 Oph. Based on optical high-resolution spectra, we determined that this object of low intrinsic metallicity ([Fe/H] = -2.2) has a mild, but significant, enrichment ([s/Fe] ~ +0.5) of heavy elements for which the distribution points to slow neutron capture nucleosynthesis. This result is strengthened by a comparative analysis to the non-enriched RV Tauri star DS Aqr ([s/Fe] = 0.0). Although V453 Oph is the first RV Tauri star showing a strong s-process signature, it is NOT accompanied by C enhancement, challenging our current nucleosynthetic models of post-AGB stars that predict a simultaneous enrichment in C and s-process elements. The low N abundance excludes CN cycling as being responsible for the low C abundance. We explore three different scenarios to explain the heavy element distribution in this evolved object: an enrichment of the parental cloud, an accretion scenario in which the chemical patterns were acquired by mass transfer in a binary system and an intrinsic enrichment by dredge-up.

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