Explaining lithium enriched red giant branch stars. ([2018])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Explaining lithium enriched red giant branch stars. ([2018])
- Main Title:
- Explaining lithium enriched red giant branch stars
- Further Information:
- Note: Claudia Aguilera-Gómez.
- Authors:
- Aguilera-Gómez, Claudia
- Contents:
- Intro; Supervisor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Stellar Evolutionary Models; 1.2 Lithium in Astrophysics; 1.2.1 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Lithium Problem; 1.2.2 Chemical Enrichment of the Galaxy; 1.2.3 Lithium in Stars; 1.3 Red Giant Branch Stars; 1.3.1 Lithium-Rich Giants; 1.4 Outline of This Thesis; References; Part I Scenarios of Lithium Enrichment; 2 Internal Mechanisms; 2.1 Rotationally Induced Mixing; 2.2 Thermohaline Mixing; 2.3 Magnetic Mechanisms and Magneto-Thermohaline Mixing; 2.4 Summary; References; 3 External Mechanisms; 3.1 Binary Companions 3.2 Substellar Companion Engulfment3.2.1 Models; Star; Substellar Companion; SSC Li Content; Assumptions; 3.2.2 Point of SSC Dissipation; 3.2.3 Surface Li Abundance; Engulfment of One SSC; Changing the Engulfed SSC; Changing the Starting Li Abundance of the Host Star; 3.2.4 Rates of Li Enrichment; 3.2.5 SSC Engulfment Models in Perspective; 3.2.6 Other Observational Constraints; 3.2.7 Evolution of 6Li Abundance; 3.3 Summary; References; Part II Observational Applications; 4 Trumpler 20; 4.1 The Possibility of Extra-Mixing in the Trumpler 20 Giants 4.2 The Two Li-Rich Giants in Trumpler 20: Possible Engulfment4.3 Summary; References; 5 Field Giants; 5.1 Sample Selection; 5.2 Measuring the Li Abundance of the Sample; 5.3 Comparison with Other Works; 5.4 Results; 5.5 Summary; References; 6 Stars with Low Main Sequence Li Abundances; 6.1 Target Selection and Observations; 6.2 Assembling theIntro; Supervisor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Stellar Evolutionary Models; 1.2 Lithium in Astrophysics; 1.2.1 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Lithium Problem; 1.2.2 Chemical Enrichment of the Galaxy; 1.2.3 Lithium in Stars; 1.3 Red Giant Branch Stars; 1.3.1 Lithium-Rich Giants; 1.4 Outline of This Thesis; References; Part I Scenarios of Lithium Enrichment; 2 Internal Mechanisms; 2.1 Rotationally Induced Mixing; 2.2 Thermohaline Mixing; 2.3 Magnetic Mechanisms and Magneto-Thermohaline Mixing; 2.4 Summary; References; 3 External Mechanisms; 3.1 Binary Companions 3.2 Substellar Companion Engulfment3.2.1 Models; Star; Substellar Companion; SSC Li Content; Assumptions; 3.2.2 Point of SSC Dissipation; 3.2.3 Surface Li Abundance; Engulfment of One SSC; Changing the Engulfed SSC; Changing the Starting Li Abundance of the Host Star; 3.2.4 Rates of Li Enrichment; 3.2.5 SSC Engulfment Models in Perspective; 3.2.6 Other Observational Constraints; 3.2.7 Evolution of 6Li Abundance; 3.3 Summary; References; Part II Observational Applications; 4 Trumpler 20; 4.1 The Possibility of Extra-Mixing in the Trumpler 20 Giants 4.2 The Two Li-Rich Giants in Trumpler 20: Possible Engulfment4.3 Summary; References; 5 Field Giants; 5.1 Sample Selection; 5.2 Measuring the Li Abundance of the Sample; 5.3 Comparison with Other Works; 5.4 Results; 5.5 Summary; References; 6 Stars with Low Main Sequence Li Abundances; 6.1 Target Selection and Observations; 6.2 Assembling the Catalog; 6.3 An Overview of the Catalog; 6.4 The Lithium Desert; 6.4.1 Characterizing Stars Around the Li Desert; 6.4.2 Characterizing the Mass, Metallicity, and Evolutionary Stage of the Li Desert; 6.4.3 The Origin of the Li Desert Stars Above the Desert and Stars Below the DesertStars Below the Desert and Stars in the Li Dip; 6.5 Discussion; 6.6 Summary; References; Part III Summary and Future Work; 7 Summary and Future Work … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham, Switzerland : Springer
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 523.88
Red giants
Lithium
SCIENCE / Astronomy
Astrophysics and Astroparticles
Theoretical Astrophysics
Lithium
Red giants
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030025830
3030025837 - Related ISBNs:
- 9783030025823
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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