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Evolution and nucleosynthesis in low mass Asymptotic Giant Branch stars

Authors :
Cristallo, S.
Publication Year :
2008
Publisher :
arXiv, 2008.

Abstract

People usually smile when astrophysicists assert that we are sons of the stars, but human life confirms this sentence: about 65% of the mass of our body is made up of oxygen, carbon occurs in all organic life and is the basis of organic chemistry, nitrogen is an essential part of amino acids and nucleic acids, calcium is a major component of our bones. Moreover, phosphorus plays a major role in biological molecules such as DNA and RNA (where the chemical codes of life is written) and our blood carries oxygen to tissues by means of the hemoglobin (an iron pigment of red blood cells). All these elements have been created in stars. I just list some examples related to human body, but also common element such as aluminum, nickel, gold, silver and lead come from a pristine generation of stars. The abundances in the Solar System are in fact due to the mixing of material ejected from stars that polluted the Universe in different epochs before the Sun formation, occurred about 5 billion years ago, after the gravitational contraction of the proto-solar cloud. Low mass AGB stars (1

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....9cefeb610c028925b73adf61945d7af1
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0808.0809