Galactic Sodium from AGB Stars
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Galactic chemical evolution models which include sodium from type II supernovae alone underestimate the abundance of sodium in the interstellar medium by a factor of two to three over about 3 dex in metallicity and predict a flat behaviour in the evolution of [Na/Fe] at super-solar metallicities. Conversely, recent observations of stars with [Fe/H]~+0.4 suggest that [Na/Fe] increases at high metallicity. We have combined stellar evolution models of asymptotic giant branch and Wolf-Rayet stars with the latest supernova yields in an attempt to resolve these problems ... and have created many more.
Poster given at the conference "Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars", August 7-11 2006, University of Vienna, Austria; to appear in the proceedings (ASP Conference Series). Winner of best poster prize!
Poster given at the conference "Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars", August 7-11 2006, University of Vienna, Austria; to appear in the proceedings (ASP Conference Series). Winner of best poster prize!