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We present a detailed chemical abundance study of seven giant stars in M68 including six red giants and one post-AGB star. We find significant differences in the gravities determined using photometry and those obtained from ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jae-Woo Lee , Bruce W. Carney , Michael J. Habgood

In this work, we studied the distribution of lithium abundances in giants as a function of stellar mass. We used a sample of 1240 giants common among Kepler photometric and LAMOST medium resolution (R $\approx$ 7500) spectroscopic survey…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-13 Anohita Mallick , Raghubar Singh , Bacham E. Reddy

We find that hot jupiter host stars within the T$_\mathrm{eff}$ range 5900-6300K show lower Li abundances, by 0.14 dex, than stars without detected planets. This offset has a significance at the level 7$\sigma$, pointing to a stronger…

The study of lithium (Li) surface abundance in the Sun and young stellar globular clusters which are seemingly anomalous in present-day scenarios, as well as the influence of rotation and magnetic braking (MB) on its depletion during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 R. Caballero Navarro , A. García Hernández , A. Ayala , J. C. Suárez

The stellar evolution of lithium-rich (Li-rich) giant stars at very low metallicities remains largely unexplored to date. Using two recent large LAMOST catalogues of field, low-mass giant stars (both Li-rich and Li-poor) with metallicities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-30 Ramiro de la Reza , Felix Llorente de Andrés , Emilio J. Alfaro , Carolina Chavero

Lithium abundances have been determined in more than 100 metal-poor halo stars both in the field and in clusters. From these data we find trends of Li with both temperature and metallicity and a real dispersion in Li abundances in the Spite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ann Merchant Boesgaard , Megan C. Novicki , Alex Stephens

Lithium (Li) is a powerful tracer of stellar mixing, gradually depleted in solar twins by non-standard transport below the convective zone. Here, we identify six new solar twins with exceptionally low Li levels that are not explained by…

To alleviate the discrepancy between the prediction of the primordial lithium abundance in the universe and the abundances observed in Pop II dwarfs and subgiant stars, it has been suggested that the stars observable today have undergone…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Lind , F. Primas , C. Charbonnel , F. Grundahl , M. Asplund

The surface lithium abundance A(Li) of warm metal-poor dwarf stars exhibits a narrow plateau down to [Fe/H]~-2.8 dex, while at lower metallicities the average value drops by 0.3 dex with a significant star-by-star scatter (called lithium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 A. Mucciarelli , L. Monaco , P. Bonifacio , M. Salaris , M. Deal , M. Spite , O. Richard , R. Lallement

We present the first systematic study of lithium abundance in a chemically homogeneous sample of 27 red supergiants (RSGs) in the young Perseus complex. For these stars, accurate stellar parameters and detailed chemical abundances of iron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-06 C. Fanelli , L. Origlia , A. Mucciarelli , N. Sanna , E. Oliva , E. Dalessandro

The Gaia-ESO survey recently reported on a large sample of lithium (Li) abundance determinations for evolved stars in the rich open cluster Trumpler 20. They argue for a scenario where virtually all stars experience post main sequence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Claudia Aguilera-Gómez , Julio Chanamé , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Joleen K. Carlberg

LTE abundances of light elements in extremely metal-poor (EMP) stars have been previously derived from high quality spectra. New derivations, free from the NLTE effects, will better constrain the models of the Galactic chemical evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 S. M. Andrievsky , Monique Spite , S. A. Korotin , F. Spite , P. Bonifacio , R. Cayrel , P. François , V. Hill

While theoretical computations of the lithium abundances in Pop II stars predict variations from star to star, the most recent observations confirm the existence of a "lithium plateau" with no abundance dispersion. This apparent paradox has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylvie Vauclair

The observed lithum (Li) abundance of Galactic halo stars mainly fall within the range of 2.0--2.4 dex. This nearly constant value, known as the Spite plateau, is approximately a factor of three lower than the value predicted from cosmic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 Wuming Yang , Shuya Dou , Xiangcun Meng , Yaqian Wu , Shaolan Bi

Old open clusters are very useful targets to investigate mechanisms responsible for lithium (Li) depletion during the main sequence. Comparison of the Li abundances in clusters of different age allows us to understand the efficiency of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Loredana Prisinzano , Sofia Randich

We have investigated the abundance anomalies of lithium for stars with planets in the temperature range of 5600--5900 K reported by Israelian and coworkers, as compared to 20 normal stars at the same temperature and metallicity ranges. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Y. Q. Chen , G. Zhao

The simultaneous investigation of Li and Be in stars is a powerful tool in the study of the evolutionary mixing processes. Here, we present beryllium abundances in stars along the whole evolutionary sequence of the open cluster IC 4651.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rodolfo Smiljanic , L. Pasquini , C. Charbonnel , N. Lagarde

(Abridged) The abundances of alpha-elements are a powerful diagnostic of the star formation history and chemical evolution of a galaxy. Sulphur, being moderately volatile, can be reliably measured in the interstellar medium (ISM) of damped…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 E. Caffau , L. Monaco , M. Spite , P. Bonifacio , G. Carraro , H. -G. Ludwig , S. Villanova , Y. Beletsky , L. Sbordone

Observational constraints on the primordial lithium abundance are important for the evaluation of the baryonic density of the universe. Its precise determination however suffers from uncertainties due to the possible depletion of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sylvie Vauclair , Corinne Charbonnel

The observations of light elements in the Sun and Solar type stars give special clues for understanding the hydrodynamical processes at work in stellar interiors. In the Sun 7Li is depleted by 140 while 3He has not increased by more than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylvie Vauclair