The GALAH survey: a census of lithium-rich giant stars
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Article Title | The GALAH survey: a census of lithium-rich giant stars |
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ERA Journal ID | 1074 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Martell, Sarah L. (Author), Simpson, Jeffrey D. (Author), Balasubramaniam, Adithya G. (Author), Buder, Sven (Author), Sharma, Sanjib (Author), Hon, Marc (Author), Stello, Dennis (Author), Ting, Yuan-Sen (Author), Asplund, Martin (Author), Bland-Hawthorn, Joss (Author), de Silva, Gayandhi M. (Author), Freeman, Ken C. (Author), Hayden, Michael (Author), Kos, Janez (Author), Lewis, Geraint F. (Author), Lind, Karin (Author), Zucker, Daniel B. (Author), Zwitter, Tomaz (Author), Campbell, Simon W. (Author), Cotar, Klemen (Author), Horner, Jonathan (Author), Montet, Benjamin (Author) and Wittenmyer, Rob (Author) |
Journal Title | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Journal Citation | 505 (4), pp. 5340-5355 |
Number of Pages | 16 |
Year | 2021 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0035-8711 |
1365-2966 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1356 |
Web Address (URL) | https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/505/4/5340/6275723 |
Abstract | We investigate the properties of 1262 red giant stars with high photospheric abundances of lithium observed by the GALAH and K2-HERMES surveys, and discuss them in the context of proposed mechanisms for lithium enrichment and redepletion in giant stars. We confirm that Li-rich giants are rare, making up only 1.2 per cent of our giant star sample. We use stellar parameters from the third public data release from the GALAH survey and a Bayesian isochrone analysis to divide the sample into first-ascent red giant branch (RGB) and red clump (RC) stars, and confirm these classifications using asteroseismic data from K2. We find that RC stars are 2.5 times as likely to be lithium-rich as RGB stars, in agreement with other recent work. The probability for a star to be lithium-rich is affected by a number of factors, though the causality in those correlations is not entirely clear. We show for the first time that primary and secondary RC stars have distinctly different lithium enrichment patterns. The data set discussed here is large and heterogeneous in terms of evolutionary phase, metallicity, rotation rate, and mass. We expect that if the various mechanisms that have been proposed for lithium enrichment in evolved stars are in fact active, they should all contribute to this sample of lithium-rich giants at some level. |
Keywords | stars; abundances; evolution; astrophysics; galaxies |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 510109. Stellar astronomy and planetary systems |
Public Notes | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2021 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
Byline Affiliations | University of New South Wales |
Australian National University | |
University of Sydney | |
University of New South Wales | |
Macquarie University | |
Stockholm University, Sweden | |
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
Monash University | |
Centre for Astrophysics | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q67v9/the-galah-survey-a-census-of-lithium-rich-giant-stars
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