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球状星团中Na-O关系的变化:红巨星分支星中深混合事件的证据

Variations in the Na-O anticorrelation in globular clusters: Evidence for a deep mixing episode in red giant branch stars

Jae-Woo Lee

摘要:

几乎所有用高分辨光谱学研究过的球状星团中的Na-O关系,现在一般用第一代中等质量渐近巨星分支星对第二代恒星的原恒星云的原始污染来解释。然而,原始污染的情况下,可能不会告诉观察到的球状星团的Na-O的关系的全部故事。利用Carretta和他的合作者最近的数据,可以清楚地看到比红巨星分支凸起亮和暗的红巨星分支恒星的Na-O关系的不同形状。如果Carretta和他的合作者的元素丰度测量没有很大的误差,那么Na-O关系对光度的这种变化表明在球状星团中低质量红巨星分支的上升过程中存在内部深度混合事件。我们的结果意味着,对于比红巨星分支凸起亮的恒星,目前流行的仅基于球状星团[O/Fe]和[Na/Fe]比值的多个恒星星族划分方案是不可靠的。我们的研究结果还表明,由深混合提供的钠可能会缓解钠生产不足的问题,在原始渐近巨分支污染的情况下。

英文摘要:

The Na-O anticorrelation seen in almost all globular clusters ever studied using high-resolution spectroscopy is now generally explained by the primordial pollution from the first generation of the intermediate-mass asymptotic giant branch stars to the proto-stellar clouds of the second generation of stars. However, the primordial pollution scenario may not tell the whole story for the observed Na-O anticorrelations in globular clusters. Using the recent data by Carretta and his collaborators, the different shapes of the Na-O anticorrelations for red giant branch stars brighter than and fainter than the red giant branch bump can be clearly seen. If the elemental abundance measurements by Carretta and his collaborators are not greatly in error, this variation in the Na-O anticorrelation against luminosity indicates an internal deep mixing episode during the ascent of the low-mass red giant branch in globular clusters. Our result implies that the multiple stellar population division scheme solely based on [O/Fe] and [Na/Fe] ratios of a globular cluster, which is becoming popular, is not reliable for stars brighter than the red giant branch bump. Our result also suggests that sodium supplied by the deep mixing may alleviate the sodium under-production problem within the primordial asymptotic giant branch pollution scenario.

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