Group II Oxide Grains: How Massive Are Their AGB Star Progenitors?
Journal
Date Issued
2021
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Abstract
Presolar grains and their isotopic compositions provide valuable constraints to AGB star nucleosynthesis. However, there is a sample of O-and Al-rich dust, known as group 2 oxide grains, whose origin is difficult to address. On the one hand, the17O/16O isotopic ratios shown by those grains are similar to the ones observed in low-mass red giant stars. On the other hand, their large18O depletion and26Al enrichment are challenging to account for. Two different classes of AGB stars have been proposed as progenitors of this kind of stellar dust: intermediate mass AGBs with hot bottom burning, or low mass AGBs where deep mixing is at play. Our models of low-mass AGB stars with a bottom-up deep mixing are shown to be likely progenitors of group 2 grains, reproducing together the17O/16O,18O/16O and26Al/27Al values found in those grains and being less sensitive to nuclear physics inputs than our intermediate-mass models with hot bottom burning.
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7
Issue
6
Start page
175
Issn Identifier
2218-1997
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2021Univ....7..175P
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open.access
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