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Zenodo, 2017

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.833159

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Heavy Metal Factory

Journal article published in 2017 by Lisa Löbling ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The metal enrichment in the cosmic circuit of matter is dominated by the yields of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) nucleosynthesis, that are blown back into the interstellar medium just before these stars die as white dwarfs. To establish constraints on AGB processes, spectral analyses of hot post-AGB stars are mandatory. These show that such stars are heavy metal factories due to the AGB s-process. The Virtual Observatory service TheoSSA offers access to synthetic stellar spectra calculated with our Tübingen non-local thermodynamic equilibrium model-atmosphere package that are suitable for the analysis of hot post-AGB stars.