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Lithium enhancement in X-ray binaries due to stellar rotation
T.J. Maccarone ; P.G. Jonker ; A.I. Sills ;
Date 9 Mar 2005
Journal Astron.Astrophys. 436 (2005) 671
Subject astro-ph
AffiliationAmsterdam), P.G. Jonker (SRON), A.I. Sills (McMaster
AbstractWe discuss the high lithium abundances in the secondary stars of X-ray binaries. We show that no lithium production in these stars is necessary, and that the abundances can be explained simply due to the tidally locked rotation of the stars, which lead naturally to slower lithium destruction rates. The differences in abundances of CVs’ secondaries from those of LMXBs had previously been put forth as evidence that the compact object was related to the lithium abundance, but this scenario also accounts for the lower lithium abundances in the secondary stars in cataclysmic variable systems (CVs) than in low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), since these stars have typically lived much longer before becoming tidally locked short period systems. We point out that if this scenario is correct, then the globular cluster X-ray binaries’ donor stars should, as a class, show less lithium enhancement relative to other stars of the same spectral type in the clusters than the field X-ray binaries’ donor stars show.
Source arXiv, astro-ph/0503211
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