Probing Massive Star Nucleosynthesis with Data on Metal-Poor Stars and the Solar System
arXiv:2112.11301 · doi:10.1051/epjconf/202226009001
Abstract
Metal-poor stars were formed during the early epochs when only massive stars had time to evolve and contribute to the chemical enrichment. Low-mass metal-poor stars survive until the present and provide fossil records of the nucleosynthesis of early massive stars. On the other hand, short-lived radionuclides (SLRs) in the early solar system (ESS) reflect the nucleosynthesis of sources that occurred close to the proto-solar cloud in both space and time. Both the ubiquity of Sr and Ba and the diversity of heavy-element abundance patterns observed in single metal-poor stars suggest that some neutron-capture mechanisms other than the r-process might have operated in early massive stars. Three such mechanisms are discussed: the weak s-process in non-rotating models with initial carbon enhancement, a new s-process induced by rapid rotation in models with normal initial composition, and neutron-capture processes induced by proton ingestion in non-rotating models. In addition, meteoritic data are discussed to constrain the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) that might have triggered the formation of the solar system and provided some of the SLRs in the ESS. If there was a CCSN trigger, the data point to a low-mass CCSN as the most likely candidate. An 11.8 solar mass CCSN trigger is discussed. Its nucleosynthesis, the evolution of its remnant, and the interaction of the remnant with the proto-solar cloud appear to satisfy the meteoritic constraints and can account for the abundances of the SLRs 41Ca, 53Mn, and 60Fe in the ESS.
arXiv comment5 pages, Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos
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