Carbon enrichment in APOGEE disk stars as evidence of mass transfer in binaries
Context. Carbon abundances in first-ascent giant stars are usually lower than those of their main-sequence counterparts. At moderate metallicities, stellar evolution of single stars cannot account for the existence of red-giant branch stars with enhanced carbon abundances. The phenomenon is usually interpreted as resulting from past mass transfer
Foster, Steve et al.
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