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H-He Shell Interactions and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Population III Stars

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2020-01-08 v1

Abstract

We report on our ongoing investigation into the nucleosynthetic and hydrodynamic nature of mixing at the interface between the H- and He-convection zones in massive Pop III stars. Studying a grid of 26 1D stellar evolution simulations with different mixing assumptions, we find that H-He interactions occur in 23/26 cases. We demonstrate the nucleosynthesis expected in a H-He interaction in an 80M_\odot. Finally, we describe our progress in simulating a Pop III double convection zone in the PPMStar hydrodynamics code.

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@article{arxiv.1810.12259,
  title  = {H-He Shell Interactions and Nucleosynthesis in Massive Population III Stars},
  author = {Ondrea Clarkson and Falk Herwig and Robert Andrassy and Marco Pignatari and Paul Woodward and Huaqing Mao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.12259},
  year   = {2020}
}

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NIC 2018 Proceeding