Diffusive convective overshoot in core He-burning intermediate mass stars. I: the LMC metallicity

Details Diffusive convective overshoot in core He-burning intermediate mass stars. I: the LMC metallicity Diffusive convective overshoot in core He-burning intermediate mass stars. I: the LMC metallicity

2005-05-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505279v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 14 figure, accepted for publication on Astronomy & Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20052668

We present detailed evolutionary calculations focused on the evolution of intermediate mass stars with 3 Msun < M < 9 Msun of metallicity typical of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), i.e. Z=0.008. We compare carefully the models calculated by adopting a diffusive scheme for chemical mixing, in which nuclear burning and mixing are self-consistently coupled, while the eddy velocities beyond the formal convective core boundary are treated to decay exponentially, and those calculated with the traditional instantaneous mixing approximation. We find that: i) the physical and chemical behaviour of the models during the H-burning phase is independent of the scheme used for the treatment of mixing inside the CNO burning core; ii) the duration of the He-burning phase relative to the MS phase is systematically longer in the diffusive models, due to a slower redistribution of helium to the core from the outer layers; iii) the fraction of time spent in the blue part of the clump, compared to the stay in the red, is larger in the diffusive models. The differences described in points ii) and iii) tend to vanish for M > Msun. In terms of the theoretical interpretation of an open cluster stellar population, the differences introduced by the use of a self-consistent scheme for mixing in the core with adjacent exponential decay are relevant for ages in the range 80 Myr < t < 200 Myr. These results are robust, since they are insensitive to the choice of the free-parameters regulating the extension of the extra-mixing region.

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