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Post first dredge-up [C/N] ratio as age indicator. Theoretical calibration

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Date Issued
2015
Author(s)
Salaris, Maurizio
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S.C. and A.M.P. warmly thank financial support by PRIN-INAF2014 (PI: S. Cassisi), and by Economy and Competitiveness Ministry of the Kingdom of Spain (grant AYA2013-42781-P). A.P. acknowledges financial support by PRIN-INAF2013 (PI: L. Bedin).
Abstract
We performed a detailed analysis of the use of [C/N] measured in red giant branch stars between the completion of the first dredge up and the red giant branch bump ([C/N] FDU) as age indicator. [C/N] FDU cannot give accurate ages for individual stars, but may provide a general chronology for the formation of composite populations and add constraints to analyses of red giants from surface gravity-effective temperature diagrams. We provide a theoretical calibration of [C/N] FDU in terms of total metallicity [M/H] and age, for ages greater than ~1 Gyr, which we tested against variations in the initial heavy element distribution (scaled-solar vs. α-enhanced), efficiency of overshooting from MS convective cores and from the convective envelopes, variations in the initial He abundance and in the mixing length parameter. Our calibration is compared with a small sample of available measurements of [C/N] FDU in star clusters and halo field stars, which at least qualitatively confirm the overall trend of the predicted [C/N] FDU with age and [M/H]. The use of [C/N] FDU-[M/H]-age relations obtained from independent sets of stellar evolution calculations cause age differences (for a given [C/N] FDU and [M/H] pair) up to ~2 Gyr. More accurate spectroscopic measurements of [C/N] FDU in star clusters with well-established ages and metallicities are required to better test theoretical calibrations of this age indicator.
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583
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A87
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0004-6361
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2015A&A...583A..87S
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