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低质量巨星的热盐混合和光球成分

Thermohaline mixing and the photospheric composition of low-mass giant stars

F. C. Wachlin, M. M. Miller Bertolami, L. G. Althaus

摘要:

我们计算完整的红巨星分支恒星的演化序列,包括最先进的组合物运输处方的温盐混合制度的光度凸附近。特别是,我们采用了自洽双扩散对流理论,允许处理的不稳定性时出现的热梯度和成分梯度相互竞争,和最近的经验激励和参数自由的渐近标度律温盐组合物运输。与以前的工作一致,我们发现,在红巨星阶段,热盐不稳定性设置后不久,氢燃烧壳(HBS)遇到的化学不连续性留下的第一个疏浚。我们还发现,热盐不稳定区域,最初出现在外部机翼的HBS,是无法达到外对流信封,其后果是没有混合的元素,产生非正则修改的恒星表面丰度发生。同样与之前的工作一致,我们发现通过人为提高温盐区的混合效率,可以连接两个不稳定区,从而影响光球组成。然而,我们发现,为了重现观测到的红巨星分支恒星的丰度接近光度凸,热盐混合效率必须人为增加约4个数量级,从最近的三维数值模拟预测的热盐对流接近天体物理环境。由此,我们得出结论,红巨星的化学丰度异常不能解释的基础上,单独的温盐混合。

英文摘要:

We compute full evolutionary sequences of red giant branch stars close to the luminosity bump by including state of the art composition transport prescriptions for the thermohaline mixing regimes. In particular we adopt a self-consistent double-diffusive convection theory, that allows to handle the instabilities that arise when thermal and composition gradients compete against each other, and a very recent empirically motivated and parameter free asymptotic scaling law for thermohaline composition transport. In agreement with previous works, we find that during the red giant stage, a thermohaline instability sets in shortly after the hydrogen burning shell (HBS) encounters the chemical discontinuity left behind by the first dredge-up. We also find that the thermohaline unstable region, initially appearing at the exterior wing of the HBS, is unable to reach the outer convective envelope, with the consequence that no mixing of elements that produces a non-canonical modification of the stellar surface abundances occurs. Also in agreement with previous works, we find that by artificially increasing the mixing efficiency of thermohaline regions it is possible to connect both unstable regions, thus affecting the photospheric composition. However, we find that in order to reproduce the observed abundances of red giant branch stars close to the luminosity bump, thermohaline mixing efficiency has to be artificially increased by about 4 orders of magnitude from that predicted by recent 3D numerical simulations of thermohaline convection close to astrophysical environments. From this we conclude the chemical abundance anomalies of red giant stars cannot be explained on the basis of thermohaline mixing alone.

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