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A random walk approach to the problem of turbulent diffusion and lithium destruction in main sequence stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Roger Cayrel
Roger Cayrel*
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Paris

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It has been suggested by Schatzman (1977) that the empirical lithium content/age relationship found by Herbig (1965) could be explained by exchange of matter between the convective zone and deeper layers, where the rate of lithium burning is higher, by turbulent diffusion. The claim by Tassoul and Tassoul (1983) that such a turbulence is necessary to obtain a self-consistent description of stellar rotation and meridional circulation has given some momentum to Schatzman's proposal, as well as other successes of the turbulent diffusion hypothesis (Schatzman et al. 1981).

Type
III. BINARITY, PULSATION, ROTATION AND MIXING
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 105: Observational Tests of the Stellar Evolution Theory , 1984 , pp. 533 - 535
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984 

References

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