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Fluorine Abundance Variations as a Signature of Enhanced Extra Mixing in Red Giants of the Globular Cluster M4

Pavel A. Denissenkov, Marc Pinsonneault, Donald M. Terndrup

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0604503

Abstract

We show that enhanced extra mixing in low-mass red giants can result in a fluorine abundance that is correlated with abundance variations of other elements participating in H burning, such as C, N, O and Na. This finding is used to explain the fluorine abundance variations recently found in bright red giants of the globular cluster M4.

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