The bottleneck of CNO burning and the age of Globular Clusters

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28 May 2004

journal article
Published by EDP Sciences in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Vol. 420 (2) , 625-629
https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20040981

Abstract

The transition between the Main Sequence and the Red Giant Branch in low mass stars is powered by the onset of CNO burning, whose bottleneck is 14N(p, O. The LUNA collaboration has recently improved the low energy measurements of the cross section of this key reaction. We analyse the impact of the revised reaction rate on the estimate of the Globular Cluster ages, as derived from the turnoff luminosity. We found that the age of the oldest Globular Clusters should be increased by about 0.7-1 Gyr with respect to the current estimates.

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