Thermohaline mixing and the photospheric composition of low-mass giant stars

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 533, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wachlin, F C ^a   Miller Bertolami, M M ^a   Althaus, L G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Instabilities; Stars: abundances; Stars: evolution; Stars: interiors

Indexed keywords

3-D NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ASYMPTOTIC SCALING; CHEMICAL ABUNDANCE; COMPOSITION GRADIENT; CONVECTIVE ENVELOPE; DOUBLE-DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION; FOUR-ORDER; GIANT STARS; INSTABILITIES; LOW-MASS; MIXING EFFICIENCY; RED GIANT BRANCHES; RED GIANTS; STARS: ABUNDANCES; STARS: EVOLUTION; STARS: INTERIORS; STELLAR SURFACES; THERMOHALINE; UNSTABLE REGIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; HYDROGEN; LUMINANCE; MIXING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

STARS;

EID: 80052873893     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117029     Document Type: Article

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