Journal
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 827, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/30
Keywords
stars: abundances; stars: evolution; stars: interiors
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Funding
- NSF [PHY 02-16783, PHY 09-22648, PHY-1430152]
- EU [MIRG-CT-2006-046520]
- STFC
- EU-FP7-ERC-St Grant [306901]
- NSERC Discovery grant
- Lendulet Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- SNF (Switzerland)
- NASA Headquarters under the NASA Earth and Planetary Science Fellowship Program [NNX12AL85H]
- NASA Cosmochemistry Program [NNX09AG39G]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1430152] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- STFC [ST/J001384/1, ST/G002355/1, ST/M001040/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The s-process nucleosynthesis in Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars depends on the modeling of convective boundaries. We present models and s-process simulations that adopt a treatment of convective boundaries based on the results of hydrodynamic simulations and on the theory of mixing due to gravity waves in the vicinity of convective boundaries. Hydrodynamics simulations suggest the presence of convective boundary mixing (CBM) at the bottom of the thermal pulse-driven convective zone. Similarly, convection-induced mixing processes are proposed for the mixing below the convective envelope during third dredge-up (TDU), where the C-13 pocket for the s process in AGB stars forms. In this work, we apply a CBM model motivated by simulations and theory to models with initial mass M = 2 andM = 3M(circle dot), and with initial metal content Z = 0.01 and Z = 0.02. As reported previously, the He-intershell abundances of C-12 and O-16 are increased by CBM at the bottom of the pulse-driven convection zone. This mixing is affecting the Ne-22(alpha, n)Mg-25 activation and the s-process efficiency in the C-13-pocket. In our model, CBM at the bottom of the convective envelope during the TDU represents gravity wave mixing. Furthermore, we take into account the fact that hydrodynamic simulations indicate a declining mixing efficiency that is already about a pressure scale height from the convective boundaries, compared to mixing-length theory. We obtain the formation of the C-13-pocket with a mass of approximate to 10(-4) M-circle dot. The final s-process abundances are characterized by 0.36<[s/Fe] < 0.78 and the heavy-to-light s-process ratio is -0.23< [hs/ls] < 0.45. Finally, we compare our results with stellar observations, presolar grain measurements and previous work.
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