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The Chemical Composition of Cool Stars: I - the Barium Stars

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Cool Stars with Excesses of Heavy Elements

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ((ASSL,volume 114))

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The chemical composition of Barium stars and their putative relatives is reviewed. Main sequence stars showing heavy element excesses, subgiant CH stars, classical and mild Barium giants, Sr-Ba supergiants, and early R stars are reviewed. A cursory interpretation of the abundance anomalies in terms of the key processes of nucleosynthesis is presented. Mass transfer across a binary system is identified as a plausible explanation for composition of Barium stars.

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Lambert, D.L. (1985). The Chemical Composition of Cool Stars: I - the Barium Stars. In: Jaschek, M., Keenan, P.C. (eds) Cool Stars with Excesses of Heavy Elements. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 114. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5325-3_27

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