Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-06-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 8 figures, accepted in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20020934
The main scope of this paper is to investigate the possible existence of a metallicity dependence of the overshooting from main sequence stars turbulent cores. We focus on objects with masses in the range ~2.5 Msol - ~25 Msol. Basically, evolutionary time scale ratios are compared with star numbers ratios on the main sequence. Star populations are synthesized using grids of evolutionary tracks computed with various overshooting amounts. Observational material is provided by the large and homogeneous photometric database of OGLE 2 project for the Magellanic clouds. Attention is paid to the study of uncertainties: distance modulus, intergalactic and interstellar reddening, IMF slope and average binarity rate. Rotation and chemical composition gradient are also considered. The result for the overshooting distance is l_over(SMC)= 0.40 +0.12-0.06 Hp (Z=0.004) and l_over(LMC)= 0.10+0.17-0.10 Hp (Z=0.008) suggesting a possible dependence of the extent of the mixed central regions with metallicity within the considered mass range. Unfortunately it is not yet possible to fully disentangle effects of mass and chemical composition.
Arenou Frederic
Beaulieu J.-Ph.
Cordier Daniel
Goupil Marie Jo
Lebreton Yveline
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