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Carbon Abundance in Mass-Exchanging Binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

H. Cugier  and
J.P. De Greve
H. Cugier
Affiliation:
Institut Astronomiczny Universitety Wroclawskiego ul. M. Kopernika 11 51-622 Wroclaw -Poland
J.P. De Greve
Affiliation:
Astrophysical Institute V.U.B Pleinlaan2 B-1050 Brussels -Belgium

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The evolution of the carbon abundance at the surface of both components of a mass-exchanging (Algol-type) binary is examined (fig. 1). Distinction is made between case B and case AB (fig. 2) of mass transfer, in view of the different timescales involved. In the mass accreting component thermohaline mixing is adopted when matter with decreasing hydrogen abundance is deposited on the surface.

It is shown that at the surface of the loser a very low C-abundance is present, while at the surface of the gainer different regimes occur. On the average the expected C-abundance on the gainer is clearly lower than the observed solar value, but far above the value at the surface of the loser. The variation in time during the mass-exchange process is compared to the values, derived from observation of several Algol-type systems.

Type
Part II. Mass-Losing Stars in Different Stages of Evolution
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 108: Atmospherics Diagnostics of Stellar Evolution: Chemical Peculiarity, Mass Loss, and Explosion , 1988 , pp. 221 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1988

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