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富Tc M星:低质量恒星演化的鸭嘴兽

Tc-rich M stars: platypuses of low-mass star evolution

Shreeya Shetye, Sophie Van Eck, Alain Jorissen, Lionel Siess, Stephane Goriely

摘要:

文献报道的富锝M星(利特尔-马列宁和利特尔(1979年); Uttenthaler等人(2013年))是令人费解的对象,因为没有锝的同位素的半衰期超过几百万年,而99 Tc是s过程路径上寿命最长的同位素,预计只有在富含其他s过程元素(如锆)的热脉冲恒星中才能检测到。碳也应该是富集的,因为它是在同一时间,在渐近巨星分支(AGB)上的每个热脉冲之后被疏浚出来的。然而,这些富含Tc的天体被归类为M星,这意味着它们既没有任何明显的锆增强(否则它们将被标记为S型星),也没有任何大的碳过剩(在这种情况下,它们将是碳星)。在这里,我们提出了第一个详细的化学分析的富Tc的M-型星,即S-Her。我们首先确认检测的Tc线,然后分析其碳和s-过程的丰度,并得出结论,它的演化状态。了解这些富Tc的M星是一个重要的步骤,以限制阈值光度的第三次疏浚和组成的s-过程喷出物在第一次热脉冲的AGB的第一次发生。

英文摘要:

The technetium-rich (Tc-rich) M stars reported in the literature (Little-Marenin & Little (1979); Uttenthaler et al. (2013)) are puzzling objects since no isotope of technetium has a half-life longer than a few million years, and 99Tc, the longest-lived isotope along the s-process path, is expected to be detected only in thermally-pulsing stars enriched with other s-process elements (like zirconium). Carbon should also be enriched, since it is dredged up at the same time, after each thermal pulse on the asymptotic giant branch (AGB). However, these Tc-enriched objects are classified as M stars, meaning that they neither have any significant zirconium enhancement (otherwise they would be tagged as S-type stars) nor any large carbon overabundance (in which case they would be carbon stars). Here we present the first detailed chemical analysis of a Tc-rich M-type star, namely S Her. We first confirm the detection of the Tc lines, and then analyze its carbon and s-process abundances, and draw conclusions on its evolutionary status. Understanding these Tc-rich M stars is an important step to constrain the threshold luminosity for the first occurrence of the third dredge-up and the composition of s-process ejecta during the very first thermal pulses on the AGB.

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