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The very lithium rich post-AGB SB2 binary HD172481

Astrophysics 2016-01-27 v1

Abstract

Double lined spectroscopic binaries in an evolved stage of evolution are expected to be extremely rare since they must consist of equally luminous and thus almost equally evolved objects, which requires an extremely similar initial mass. In this contribution we discuss such rare double evolved SB2 system: HD172481. This binary includes an F-type post-AGB object and an M-type AGB companion. The spectrum shows a surprisingly strong LiI 670.8nm line with an equivalent width of 54mA yielding a lithium abundance of log(Li)=3.6. Several explanations for this huge lithium content are explored.

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0010513,
  title  = {The very lithium rich post-AGB SB2 binary HD172481},
  author = {Maarten Reyniers and Hans Van Winckel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0010513},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of: "Post-AGB Objects (Proto-Planetary Nebulae) as a Phase of Stellar Evolution", held in Torun, Poland, July 5-7, 2000; eds. R. Szczerba, R. Tylenda, and S.K. Gorny. See also the accepted A&A paper at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0010486

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