Modeling lithium rich carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: an independent distance indicator ?

Details Modeling lithium rich carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: an independent distance indicator ? Modeling lithium rich carbon stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: an independent distance indicator ?

1999-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9911033v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/312315

We present the first quantitative results explaining the presence in the Large Magellanic Cloud of some asymptotic giant branch stars that share the properties of lithium rich carbon stars. A self-consistent description of time-dependent mixing, overshooting, and nuclear burning was required. We identify a narrow range of masses and luminosities for this peculiar stars. Comparison of these models with the luminosities of the few Li-rich C stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud provides an independent distance indicator for the LMC

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