The Effects of Individual Element Changed Mixture on the Standard Stellar Models

  • Beom, Minje (Department of Astronomy, University of Yonsei) ;
  • Lee, Young-Wook (Department of Astronomy, University of Yonsei) ;
  • Ferguson, Jason W. (Department of Physics, Wichita State University) ;
  • Kim, Yong-Cheol (Department of Astronomy, University of Yonsei)
  • Published : 2014.10.13

Abstract

This research is to study the effects of individual element(C, N, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, and Fe) on the standard stellar models. Our work is different from previous works in two aspects. Firstly, we have chosen to maintain helium abundance and other metal elements as target elements were changed. This is to see the effects more clearly, without further complication. Secondly, the amount of enhancement or reduction in each element has been based on the recent observation of stars in globular clusters. For comparison study with observation of the globular clusters, the mass and metallicity grids of the standard stellar models have been constructed in range $0.7{\sim}1.0M{\odot}$ and 0.0002~0.007, respectively. The opacity as a function of depth in stellar models at equal evolutionary point, as well as the evolutionary tracks, have been analyzed. The quantified shifts of the evolutionary tracks for the stellar models which have changed abundance of individual element and the astronomical meaning with physical reasons which produce the results, are going to be presented in this talk.

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