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贫金属球状星团NGC6397内禀Li贫化和Li-Na反关联的特征

Signatures of intrinsic Li depletion and Li-Na anti-correlation in the metal-poor globular cluster NGC6397

K. Lind, F. Primas, C. Charbonnel, F. Grundahl, M. Asplund

摘要:

为了减轻宇宙中原始锂丰度的预测与在Pop II矮星和亚巨星中观测到的丰度之间的差异,有人认为今天可观测到的恒星经历了Li的光球耗尽。为了限制这种耗尽的性质,我们进行了一个非常大的样本的恒星在金属贫乏的球状星团NGC 6397均匀的分析,以及所有的演化阶段,从下面的主序关闭到红巨星分支。非LTE锂丰度或丰度上限获得的所有恒星,并为一个相当大的子集的目标也获得钠丰度。钠丰度被用来区分由原始物质形成的恒星和由上一代更大质量恒星的污染影响的物质形成的恒星。矮恒星、关闭恒星和早期亚巨星形成了一个薄的丰度平台,在亚巨星分支的中间被第一次挖掘造成的锂稀释所破坏。第二个急剧下降的丰度是在红巨星分支隆起。这些关闭的恒星比那些还没有被挖掘出来的亚巨星更缺乏锂,最多只有0.1 dex。此外,较热的矮星比较冷的矮星更缺乏锂,这可能是星团中所谓的Li dip的标志,在PopI恒星中常见。一个相当大的分布在钠丰度证实,NGC 6397遭受了集群内污染在其婴儿期和有限数量的钠增强和锂缺乏恒星强烈有助于形成显着的反相关之间的钠和锂的丰度。推断的锂丰度进行比较,从恒星结构模型,包括原子扩散和特设湍流对流区以下的预测。

英文摘要:

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 photospheric depletion of Li. To constrain the nature of such depletion, we conduct a homogeneous analysis of a very large sample of stars in the metal-poor globular cluster NGC6397, covering well all evolutionary phases from below the main sequence turn-off to high up the red giant branch. Non-LTE Li abundances or abundance upper limits are obtained for all stars, and for a size-able sub-set of the targets also Na abundances are obtained. The sodium abundances are used to distinguish stars formed out of pristine material from stars formed out of material affected by pollution from a previous generation of more massive stars. The dwarfs, turn-off, and early subgiant stars form a thin abundance plateau, disrupted in the middle of the subgiant branch by the lithium dilution caused by the first dredge-up. A second steep abundance drop is seen at the red giant branch bump. The turn-off stars are more lithium-poor, by up to 0.1 dex, than subgiants that have not yet undergone dredge-up. In addition, hotter dwarfs are slightly more lithium-poor than cooler dwarfs, which may be a signature of the so-called Li dip in the cluster, commonly seen among PopI stars. A considerably large spread in Na abundance confirms that NGC6397 has suffered from intra-cluster pollution in its infancy and a limited number of Na-enhanced and Li-deficient stars strongly contribute to form a significant anti-correlation between the abundances of Na and Li. The inferred Li abundances are compared to predictions from stellar structure models including atomic diffusion and ad-hoc turbulence below the convection zone.

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