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红巨星的光球氮丰度和碳12 C/13 C比值

Photospheric nitrogen abundances and carbon 12C/13C ratios of red giant stars

Yoichi Takeda, Masashi Omiya, Hiroki Harakawa, Bun'ei Sato

摘要:

红巨星大气中的氮丰度和碳同位素比值(12 C/13 C)被认为是受氢燃烧产物的影响,并作为有用的探针来研究演化引起的包络混合的性质。通过对~8002- 8005 A区域的12 CN和13 CN谱线进行光谱拟合,我们测定了239颗晚G/早K巨星的[N/Fe]和12 C/13 C比值,目的是研究这些量与我们以前工作中报道的其他类似混合影响指标之间的关系。据证实,[N/Fe]值通常是超日的(通常是十分之几的dex,但在恒星之间有很大的差异),与[C/Fe]反相关,与[Na/Fe]相关,正如理论所预期的那样。从它们对恒星参数的依赖性可以看出,混合倾向于随着恒星光度(或质量)和自转速度的增加而增强,这在理论上也是合理的。相比之下,12 C/13 C比值在~5-50的范围内变化很大(峰值在~20左右),没有显示出对氯化萘循环物质混合引起的C或N丰度异常的系统依赖性。因此,我们对红巨星光球12 C/13 C比值的理解仍然是不完整的,需要更多的观测研究。

英文摘要:

Nitrogen abundances and carbon isotope ratios (12C/13C) in the atmospheres of red giants are known to be influenced by dredge-up of H-burning products and serve as useful probes to study the nature of evolution-induced envelope mixing. We determined the [N/Fe] and 12C/13C ratios for 239 late-G/early-K giant stars by applying the spectrum-fitting technique to the 12CN and 13CN lines in the ~8002-8005A region, with an aim to investigate how these quantities are related to other similar mixing-affected indicators which were already reported in our previous work. It was confirmed that [N/Fe] values are generally supersolar (typically by several tenths dex though widely differ from star to star), anti-correlated with [C/Fe], and correlated with [Na/Fe], as expected from theory. As seen from their dependence upon stellar parameters, it appears that mixing tends to be enhanced with an increase of stellar luminosity (or mass) and rotational velocity, which is also reasonable from the theoretical viewpoint. In contrast, the resulting 12C/13C ratios turned out to be considerably diversified in the range of ~5-50 (with a peak around ~20), without showing any systematic dependence upon C or N abundance anomalies caused by the mixing of CN-cycled material. It thus appears that our understanding on the photospheric 12C/13C ratios in red giants is still incomplete, for which more observational studies would be required.

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