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Pérez-Mesa, V.; Zamora, O.; García-Hernández, D. A.; Martínez Osorio, Y.; Masseron, T.; Plez, B.; Manchado, A.; Karakas, A. I.; Lugaro, M.
Bibliographical reference
Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics X, Proceedings of the XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 16-20, 2018, in Salamanca, Spain, ISBN 978-84-09-09331-1. B. Montesinos, A. Asensio Ramos, F. Buitrago, R. Schödel, E. Villaver, S. Pérez-Hoyos, I. Ordóñez-Etxeberria (eds.) p. 428-428
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2019
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We explore the circumstellar effects on the Li and Ca abundances
determination in a complete sample of massive Galactic AGB stars. The Li
abundance is an indicator of the hot bottom burning (HBB) activation,
while the total Ca abundance could be affected by overproduction of the
short-lived radionuclide ^{41}Ca by the s-process. The Li abundances
were previously studied with hydrostatic models, while the Ca abundances
are determined here for the first time. The pseudo-dynamical abundances
of Li and Ca are very similar to the hidrostatic ones, indicating that
the circumstellar effects are almost negligible. The new Li abundances
confirm the (super-)Li-rich character of the sample Li-detected stars,
supporting the HBB activation in massive Galactic AGB stars. Most sample
stars display nearly solar Ca abundances that are consistent with
predictions from the s-process nucleosynthesis models. A minority of the
sample stars show a significant Ca depletion. Possible reasons for their
(unexpected) low Ca content are given.