CNO in Low- and Zero-Metallicity AGB Stars

Details CNO in Low- and Zero-Metallicity AGB Stars CNO in Low- and Zero-Metallicity AGB Stars

2002-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0212366v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures, To be published in "CNO in the Universe", ASP Conference Series, C. Charbonnel, D. Schaerer & G. Meynet (e

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The oldest stars hide information about the chemical evolution of the early universe. In this contect new models of the AGB stellar evolution phase at very low and zero metallicity are presented. Due to the deficiency or absence of CNO catalytic material hydrogen burning operates at significantly higher temperatures than in stars of higher metallicity. As a result convective mixing plays a very important role since the nuclear burning shells are not well separated by an entropy barrier. These stars can host flash-like burning events induced by mixing of C12 and protons at the core-envelope interface. Three different mixing events with proton-capture nucleosynthesis can be encountered. One of them, the hot dredge-up, is reported here for the first time. All these specific modes of nucleosynthesis are relevant for the production of CNO material in the first intermediate mass stars.

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