The age-mass relation for chromospherically active binaries - III. Lithium depletion in giant components

We present a study of the lithium abundances of a sample of evolved components of Chromospherically Active Binary Systems. We show that a significant part of them have lithium excesses, independently of their mass and evolutionary stage. Therefore, it can be concluded that Li abundance does not depe...

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Authors: Barrado y Navascués, D., Castro Rubio, Elisa De, Fernández Figueroa, María José, Cornide Castro-Piñeiro, Manuel, García López, R. J.
Format: article
Publication Date:1998
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repository:Docta Complutense
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/59611
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59611
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:52
RS-canum-venaticorum
Hyades cluster
CVN binaries
F-dwarfs
Stars
Abundances
Search
Scale
Astrofísica
Astronomía (Física)
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Summary:We present a study of the lithium abundances of a sample of evolved components of Chromospherically Active Binary Systems. We show that a significant part of them have lithium excesses, independently of their mass and evolutionary stage. Therefore, it can be concluded that Li abundance does not depend on age for giant components of CABS. These overabundances appear to be closely related to the stellar rotation, and we interpret them as a consequence of the transfer of angular momentum from the orbit to the rotation as the stars evolve: in and off the Main Sequence, in a similar way as it happens in the dwarf components of the same systems and in the Tidally Locked Binaries belonging to the Hyades and M67.