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The complex stellar system M 22: constraining the chemical enrichment from AGB stars using magnesium isotope ratios
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A solar energy research paper on The complex stellar system M 22: constraining the chemical enrichment from AGB stars using magnesium isotope ratios.
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The complex star cluster M 22 (NGC 6656) provides a unique opportunity for studying slow neutron-capture (s-process) nucleosynthesis at low metallicity due to its two stellar groups with distinct iron-peak and neutron-capture element abundances. Previous studies attribute these abundance differences to pollution from 3-6 solar-mass asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, which produce significant quantities of the neutron-rich Mg isotopes 25Mg and 26Mg. We report the first-ever measurements of Mg isotopic abundance ratios at [Fe/H] approximately -2 in a globular-cluster-like system using very high-resolution and high signal-to-noise spectra (R = 110000, S/N = 300 per pixel at 514 nm) from the VLT/UVES spectrograph for six stars, three in each s-process group. Despite the presence of star-to-star variations in 24Mg, 25Mg, and 26Mg, we find no correlation with heavy-element abundances, implying that the nucleosynthetic source of s-process enrichment must not influence Mg isotope ratios. Instead, a key result of this work is that we identify correlations between 26Mg/24Mg and some light elements. Using a custom suite of AGB nucleosynthesis yields tailored to the metallicity of M 22, we find that low-mass AGB stars of approximately 1-3 solar masses are capable of reproducing the observed s-process abundances of M 22 and that the absence of any difference in Mg isotope ratios between the two s-process groups precludes AGBs with masses above approximately 3 solar masses. This places tighter constraints on possible formation scenarios and suggests an age difference of at least approximately 280-480 Myr between the two populations that is independent of isochrone fitting.
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