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热盐对流的数值模拟:对低质量RGB星外混合的影响

Numerical Simulations of Thermohaline Convection: Implications for Extra-Mixing in Low-Mass RGB Stars

Pavel A. Denissenkov

摘要:

已知低质量恒星在它们的辐射带中会经历额外的混合,这些辐射带位于隆起光度之上的红巨星分支(RGB)。为了确定是否盐指运输的化学成分驱动的3He燃烧是足够有效的产生RGB额外的混合,2D数值模拟的热盐对流的物理条件对应的RGB的情况下进行了。我们发现盐指长度与直径的有效比值a_eff < 0.5比重现观测所需的值(a_obs > 7)小十倍以上。另一方面,使用来自线性稳定性分析的热盐扩散系数与a=a_obs一起能够很好地描述所有金属丰度下的RGB额外混合,以至于人们很容易相信它可能代表真正的机制。鉴于这些结果,后续的三维数值模拟的热盐对流的RGB的情况下,显然是必要的。

英文摘要:

Low-mass stars are known to experience extra-mixing in their radiative zones on the red-giant branch (RGB) above the bump luminosity. To determine if the salt-fingering transport of chemical composition driven by 3He burning is efficient enough to produce RGB extra-mixing, 2D numerical simulations of thermohaline convection for physical conditions corresponding to the RGB case have been carried out. We have found that the effective ratio of a salt-finger's length to its diameter a_eff < 0.5 is more than ten times smaller than the value needed to reproduce observations (a_obs > 7). On the other hand, using the thermohaline diffusion coefficient from linear stability analysis together with a=a_obs is able to describe the RGB extra-mixing at all metallicities so well that it is tempting to believe that it may represent the true mechanism. In view of these results, follow-up 3D numerical simulations of thermohaline convection for the RGB case are clearly needed.

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