Galactic Evolution Of D And 3He Including Stellar Production Of 3He

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1996-01-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9601117v1

Astrophys.J. 465 (1996) 887

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, plus 10 figures, accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/177472

New stellar models which track the production and destruction of $^3$He (and D) have been evolved for a range of stellar masses $(0.65\leq M/M_{\odot}\leq 100)$, metallicities $(0.01 \leq Z/Z_{\odot} \leq 1)$ and initial (main sequence) $^3$He mass fractions $(10^{-5} \leq X_{3,MS} \leq 10^{-3})$. Armed with the $^3$He yields from these stellar models we have followed the evolution of D and $^3$He using a variety of chemical evolution models with and without infall of primordial or processed material. Production of new $^3$He by the lower mass stars overwhelms any reasonable primordial contributions and leads to predicted abundances in the presolar nebula and/or the present interstellar medium in excess of the observationally inferred values. This result, which obtains even for zero primordial D and $^3$He, and was anticipated by Rood, Steigman \& Tinsley (1976), is insensitive to the choice of chemical evolution model; it is driven by the large $^3$He yields from low mass stars. In an attempt to ameliorate this problem we have considered a number of non-standard models in which the yields from low mass stars have been modified. Although several of these non-standard models may be consistent with the $^3$He data, they may be inconsistent with observations of $^{12}$C/$^{13}$C, $^{18}$O and, most seriously, the super-$^3$He rich planetary nebulae (Rood, Bania \& Wilson 1992). Even using the most extreme of these non-standard models (Hogan 1995), we obtain a generous upper bound to pre-galactic $^3$He: X$_{3P} \leq 3.2 \times10^{-5}$ which, nonetheless, leads to a stringent lower bound to the universal density of nucleons.

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