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Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical Journal Année : 2009

Influence of Thermohaline Convection on Diffusion-Induced Iron Accumulation in a Stars

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Atomic diffusion may lead to heavy-element accumulation inside stars in certain specific layers. Iron accumulation in the Z-bump opacity region has been invoked by several authors to quantitatively account for abundance anomalies observed in some stars, or to account for stellar oscillations through the induced kappa-mechanism. These authors, however, never took into account the fact that such an accumulation creates an inverse mu-gradient, unstable for thermohaline convection. Here, we present results for A-F stars, where abundance variations are computed with and without this process. We show that iron accumulation is still present when thermohaline convection is taken into account, but much reduced compared to when this physical process is neglected. The consequences of thermohaline convection for A-type stars as well as for other types of stars are presented.

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hal-03797025 , version 1 (04-10-2022)

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S. Theado, Sylvie D. Vauclair, Georges Alecian, François Leblanc. Influence of Thermohaline Convection on Diffusion-Induced Iron Accumulation in a Stars. The Astrophysical Journal, 2009, 704, pp.1262-1273. ⟨10.1088/0004-637X/704/2/1262⟩. ⟨hal-03797025⟩
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