Binary Populations of Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars
Abstract
We construct binary-star population nucleosynthesis models of carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars. We compare the CEMP to extremely metal-poor (EMP) ratio of our models to the observed ratio and find it is an order of magnitude too small. Through an increase in the efficiency of third dredge-up in low-mass, low-metallicity, thermally-pulsing Asymptotic Giant Branch (TP-AGB) stars our models better match the observations.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- September 2009
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0909.4891
- Bibcode:
- 2009PASA...26..311I
- Keywords:
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- Galaxy: halo;
- nucleosynthesis;
- stars: abundances;
- stars: AGB;
- stars: binaries;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Accepted for publication in PASA. Three pages, one figure