Nucleosynthesis in intermediate mass AGB stars
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We present a summary of the main sites for nucleosynthesis in intermediate mass Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars. We then discuss some detailed evolutionary models and how these have been used to create a synthetic evolution code which calculates the nucleosynthesis very rapidly, enabling us to investigate changes in some uncertain parameters in AGB evolution, such as mass-loss and dredge-up. We then present results for C, C/O, Mg and Al. We also discuss the changes due to the recent NACRE compilation of reaction rates.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9912298,
title = {Nucleosynthesis in intermediate mass AGB stars},
author = {John Lattanzio and Corinne Charbonnel and Manuel Forestini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9912298},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, including figures. Paper presented at Workshop on "The Changes in Abundances in Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars", Rome, Sept 16-18, 1999