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Chemical evolution of D in the Local Disk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2010

Takuji Tsujimoto
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan email: taku.tsujimoto@nao.ac.jp
Joss Bland-Hawthorn
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Abstract

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Chemical features of the local disk have firmly established the picture for the formation of the Galactic disk that the star formation has proceeded under the continuous accretion of low-metallicity gas from the halo. It sets two determinant processes for the evolution of deuterium (D), that is, the destruction of D in the interior of stars and the supply of new (nearly) primordial D associated with the gas infall. Conventional Galactic chemical evolution (GCE) models predict that this scheme leads to a monotonic decrease in D/H with time and ends up in the present-day D/H abundance (D/H)0 which is severely lower than the recently observed estimates. These predicted features are the natural results of a construction of the metal-rich (~solar abundance) local star+gas system. Here we propose that the new GCE models, that incorporate large-scale winds form the Galactic bulge which entrain heavy elements and drop them on the disk with the recent tendency of star formation in tune with the observed implications, make the system rich in both metals and D. In addition, our finding of a gradual increase in D/H with time during the last several Gyr is observationally supported by the D/H abundance for the protosolar cloud lower than (D/H)0.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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