On the nature of the neutron exposure event of U Aquarii

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Cool Stars, Heavy Elements, Neutrons, Peculiar Stars, Stellar Composition, Stellar Evolution, Abundance, Exponential Functions, High Dispersion Spectrographs, Nuclear Fusion, Nuclear Reactions, Spectral Line Width, Stellar Spectra, Variable Stars

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With regard to the search for an explanation on the origin of the peculiar cool R CrB star U Aquarii, it is important to determine whether the observed heavy element enhancements are due to a single neutron exposure as previously suggested, or to a series of exponentially weighted exposures. High-dispersion spectra of U Aquarii were obtained in order to investigate this. The Sr and Y enhancements are found to be lower than previously believed. Zr is found to be slightly overabundant, but no significant enhancement of Ba is detected. It is shown that a weak exponentially weighted distribution of neutron exposures characterized by τ0 ≡ 0.1 mb-1 can, within the observational uncertainties, represent these enhancements. The implications of these results to theories regarding the origin of U Aquarii and other R CrB stars is discussed.

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