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Thermohaline Mixing in Low-Mass Red Giant Stars

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posted on 2019-06-14, 05:42 authored by KATE HENKEL
In this thesis we investigate an unknown mixing mechanism that occurs in the interiors of low-mass red giants, which are stars approximately the same mass as our Sun and significantly larger. To study this mechanism, we use observations of the surface elemental abundances of groups of stars, which show that at a particular point in stars’ lives, some elemental abundances change according to mixing occurring in the interior. A popular theory to explain this is thermohaline mixing, a diffusive process originally found to occur in Earth’s oceans. We compare our stellar models to observations to learn more about this mixing.

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Campus location

Australia

Principal supervisor

Amanda Karakas

Year of Award

2019

Department, School or Centre

Physics and Astronomy

Course

Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Type

DOCTORATE

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Faculty of Science

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