Deep Dredge-up in Intermediate-Mass Thermally Pulsing AGB Stars
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We present results of the evolution of AGB stars of 3M⊙ and 5M⊙ with solar metallicity calculated with the Eggleton stellar evolution code (stars), which has a fully implicit and simultaneous method for solving for the stellar structure, convective mixing and nuclear burning. We introduce the concept of a viscous mesh in order to improve the numerical stability of the calculations. For the 5M⊙ star, we evolve through 25 thermal pulses and their associated third dredge-up events. We obtain a maximum helium luminosity of 1.7 × 10 L⊙ and significantly deep dredge-up after the second pulse. Strong hot-bottom burning is observed after the 5 pulse. The 3M⊙ model is evolved through 20 thermal pulse events and we find third dredge-up after the 7th pulse. During the 14th pulse sufficient carbon has been brought to the surface to produce a carbon star. We find that dredge-up and the transformation into a carbon star occur at significantly smaller core masses (0.584M⊙ and 0.608M⊙, respectively) than in previous calculations for 3M⊙.
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