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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
Volume 26, Issue 3, Pages 271-277Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1071/AS08071
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dust, extinction; Galaxy: evolution; nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances; stars: AGB and post-AGB
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Presolar grains in meteorites formed in a sample of Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars that ended their lives within approximate to 1 Gyr of the origin of the Solar System 4.6 Gyr ago. The O-isotopic compositions of presolar O-rich stardust reflect the masses and metallicities of their parent stars. We present simple Monte Carlo simulations of the parent AGB stars of presolar grains. Comparison of model predictions with the grain data allow some broad conclusions to be drawn: (1) Presolar O-rich grains formed in AGB stars of mass similar to 1.15-2.2 M-circle dot. The upper-mass cutoff reflects dredge-up of C in more massive AGB stars, leading to C-rich dust rather than O-rich, but the lack of grains from intermediate-mass AGB stars (>4 M-circle dot) is a major puzzle; (2) The grain O-isotopic data are reproduced well if the Galaxy in presolar times was assumed to have a moderate age-metallicity relationship, but with significant metallicity scatter for stars born at the same time; (3) The Sun appears to have a moderately low metallicity for its age and/or unusual O-17/O-16 and O-18/O-16 ratios for its metallicity; and (4) The Solar O-17/O-18 ratio, while unusual relative to present-day molecular clouds and protostars, was not atypical for the presolar disk and does not require self-pollution of the protosolar molecular cloud by supernova ejecta.
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