${}^{22}$Ne and ${}^{23}$Na ejecta from intermediate-mass stars: The impact of the new LUNA rate for ${}^{22}$Ne(p,$\gamma$)${}^{23}$Na

Abstract

We investigate the impact of the new LUNA rate for the nuclear reaction ${}^{22}$Ne$(p,\gamma {)}^{23}$Na on the chemical ejecta of intermediate-mass stars, with particular focus on the thermally-pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB) stars that experience hot-bottom burning. To this aim we use the PARSEC and COLIBRI codes to compute the complete evolution, from the pre-main sequence up to the termination of the TP-AGB phase, of a set of stellar models with initial masses in the range $3.0M_{\odot }-6.0M_{\odot }$, and metallicities $Z_{\mathrm{i}}=0.0005$, $Z_{\mathrm{i}}=0.006$, and $Z_{\mathrm{i}}=0.014$. We find that the new LUNA measures have much reduced the nuclear uncertainties of the ${}^{22}$Ne and ${}^{23}$Na AGB ejecta, which drop from factors of $\simeq 10$ to only a factor of few for the lowest metallicity models. Relying on the most recent estimations for the destruction rate of ${}^{23}$Na, the uncertainties that still affect the ${}^{22}$Ne and ${}^{23}$Na AGB ejecta are mainly dominated by evolutionary aspects (efficiency of mass-loss, third dredge-up, convection). Finally, we discuss how the LUNA results impact on the hypothesis that invokes massive AGB stars as the main agents of the observed O-Na anti-correlation in Galactic globular clusters. We derive quantitative indications on the efficiencies of key physical processes (mass loss, third dredge-up, sodium destruction) in order to simultaneously reproduce both the Na-rich, O-poor extreme of the anti-correlation, and the observational constraints on the CNO abundance. Results for the corresponding chemical ejecta are made publicly available.

21 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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