Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000mnras.316..395d&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 316, Issue 2, pp. 395-406.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
58
Stars: Abundances, Stars: Evolution, Stars: Interiors, Stars: Rotation, Globular Clusters: General
Scientific paper
For the first time we propose a real physical mechanism for `extra mixing' in red giants that can quantitatively interpret all the known star-to-star abundance variations in globular clusters. This is Zahn's mechanism. It considers extra mixing in a radiative zone of a rotating star as a result of the joint operation of meridional circulation and turbulent diffusion. It is shown that the only free parameter, the angular velocity at the base of the convective envelope, can be so adjusted as to fit the observed abundance correlations without leading to a conflict with available data on rotation velocities of blue horizontal branch stars in the same cluster. There are two critical assumptions in our model, that the top of the radiative zone is not in synchronous rotation with the stellar surface but rotates significantly faster and that the criterion for shear instability takes a particular form. These will eventually be tested by three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations.
Denissenkov Pavel A.
Tout Christopher A.
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