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The Origin of the Lithium Rich Giants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Corinne Charbonnel
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Suchitra Balachandran
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, USA

Abstract

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We use Hipparcos parallaxes to determine the evolutionary status and the nature of the so-called Li-rich giants. These informations clearly support the hypothesis of internal nuclear lithium enrichment by an extra-mixing process at two distinct evolutionary phases.

Type
4. Lithium Abundances
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000 

References

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