We study s-process element abundance ratios in stars by carrying out stellar population synthesis, using a rapid synthetic stellar evolution code which includes an up-to-date treatment of AGB nucleosynthesis and evolution. In contrast to other studies, we find that a large spread in the 13C efficiency parameter (13C_eff) is not needed to explain the observed spread in the ratios of heavy s-process to light s-process elements ([hs/ls]), but this comes naturally from the range of different initial stellar masses and their time evolution. As a result, the 13C efficiency needed for fitting most stars in the galactic disk is constrained to 1 < 13C_eff < 2.5. In the same fashion we also study the [Pb/Ce] ratios of lead stars and find out that for low metallicities 13C_eff is approximately 0.5.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0603757,
title = {Population synthesis of s-process element enhanced stars: Constraining the 13C efficiency},
author = {A. Bonacic Marinovic and R. G. Izzard and M. Lugaro and O. R. Pols},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0603757},
year = {2007}
}
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6 pages, 3 figures, 1 .cls file (mem.cls) Proceeding of the 8th Torino Workshop in Granada, February, 2006