On the red-giant luminosity bump

Abstract

The increase in luminosity as a star evolves on the red-giant branch is interrupted briefly when the hydrogen-burning shell reaches the vicinity of the composition discontinuity left behind from the first convective dredge-up. The non-monotonic variation of luminosity causes an accumulation of stars, known as the `bump', in the distribution of stars in the colour-magnitude diagrams of stellar clusters, which has substantial diagnostic potential. Here I present numerical results on this behaviour and discuss the physical reason for the luminosity variation, with the goal of strengthening the understanding of origin of the phenomenon and hence of its diagnostic potential.

MNRAS, in the press

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