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Using Binary Population Synthesis to Examine the Impact of Binary Evolution on the C, N, O, and $S$-Process Yields of Solar-Metallicity Low- and Intermediate-Mass Stars

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Pith's one-line read A stellar population with a binary fraction of 0.7 ejects about 20–25% less carbon, strontium, barium, and lead than a single-star-only population, while N and O yields barely change.

desk verdict A serious binary population synthesis paper with a robust carbon yield result, but the s-process yields rest on an untested low-mass extrapolation. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.01025 v1 pith:QJQ7HVR2 submitted 2024-12-02 astro-ph.SR astro-ph.GA

Zara Osborn , Amanda I. Karakas , Alex J. Kemp , Robert Izzard , Devika Kamath , Maria Lugaro This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

AGB stars are major suppliers of carbon, nitrogen, and roughly half of the elements heavier than iron, but standard yield calculations treat them as single stars even though most such stars have companions. This paper uses a modified binary population synthesis code, with third dredge-up calibrated to the luminosity function of Galactic carbon stars and intershell abundances fitted to 328 isotopes, to compute population yields for binary fractions from 0 to 1 at solar metallicity. The central result is that a population with a binary fraction of 0.7 ejects roughly 20–25% less carbon and $s$-process elements such as Sr, Ba, and Pb than a single-star-only population, because binary interactions truncate or prevent the thermally pulsing AGB phase that manufactures and dredges up these elements. Nitrogen and oxygen yields change by only a few percent, with the N decrease and O increase nearly cancelling across the population.

What carries the argument

The machinery is a synthetic binary population synthesis code with three modifications that carry the argument. First, the third dredge-up parameters are recalibrated to the observed Galactic carbon-star luminosity function, yielding a minimum core-mass reduction of $\Delta M_{c,\min} = -0.13\,M_\odot$ and a minimum dredge-up efficiency $\lambda_{\min}=0.45$. Second, the helium intershell abundance table is refitted to detailed AGB models covering 328 isotopes, with the heavy-element table keyed to the number of third dredge-up events rather than the number of thermal pulses, so $s$-process production (the slow neutron-capture chain that builds elements up to lead) is tied to actual dredge-up. Third, a grid of 640,000 binary systems and 1,000 single stars is weighted by a standard initial mass function and period/mass-ratio distributions to give population yields per solar mass of star-forming material. The third dredge-up is the convective mixing event that carries carbon and $s$-process products from the helium intershell to the stellar surface; without it the yields of C, Sr, Ba, and Pb are drastically reduced.

What would settle it

If high-precision astrometry and radial velocities show that a substantial fraction (say more than 20%) of the carbon stars in the luminosity-function sample used for calibration are extrinsic binary-polluted stars rather than intrinsic AGB stars, the calibrated third dredge-up parameters and the resulting 20–25% yield reduction are biased.

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Core claim

The paper's central discovery is that binary companions suppress, rather than enhance, the net chemical return of low- and intermediate-mass stars. In the weighted population with a binary fraction of 0.7, the C yield falls to 0.82 of the single-star value, N to 0.95, and O rises to 1.02; Sr, Ba, and Pb fall to 0.76, 0.75, and 0.77 respectively (Tables 3 and 4). The mechanism is that only 60% of binary systems produce a TP-AGB star with at least five thermal pulses, versus 78% of single stars; common-envelope ejection and Roche-lobe overflow cut the AGB phase short before the third dredge-up can deliver carbon and $s$-process elements to the wind. There are rare counterexamples: low-mass binaries can overproduce carbon through extra thermal pulses after accretion or through helium/CO white-dwarf mergers of the R Coronae Borealis type, and some merged stars sustain hot-bottom burning longer and overproduce nitrogen. The predicted Ba star population reproduces most observed [Ce/Y] values but overproduces the fraction with [Ce/Y] > +0.2, leading the authors to conclude their models are over-efficient at making $s$-process elements in low-mass stars.

Load-bearing premise

The third dredge-up calibration assumes that the Galactic carbon stars used for the fit are mostly intrinsic single AGB stars rather than binary-polluted extrinsic carbon stars; if a substantial fraction are extrinsic, the calibrated dredge-up parameters and the resulting yield reductions are biased.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • At a binary fraction of 0.7, the population ejects about 18% less C and about 24–25% less Sr, Ba, and Pb than a single-star-only population; at binary fraction 1.0 the reductions reach 24% for C and 33% for Ba.
  • Binary interactions reduce the number of TP-AGB stars by 23% and the number of hot-bottom burning systems by 24%, which propagates into lower carbon-star formation: 40% of binary primaries become C stars versus 51% of single stars.
  • The N yield drops only 5% and O rises 2% at a binary fraction of 0.7, so binary evolution does not strongly alter the CNO return of AGB populations even though it changes the distribution of [C/O], [N/O], and [C/N] among individual systems.
  • The model predicts 40% of Ba stars with [Ce/Y] > +0.2 versus 24% observed, and a rare population of about 30 massive (>10 $M_\odot$) Ba stars in the Milky Way that has not yet been observed.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the 20–25% reduction is real, chemical evolution models that take AGB yields from single stars alone are systematically over-injecting carbon and $s$-process elements; the binary fraction becomes a needed parameter in galactic chemical evolution calculations.
  • The overproduction of high-[Ba/Fe] and high-[Ce/Y] stars suggests the assumed $^{13}$C pocket size or dredge-up efficiency in low-mass models is too generous; a larger observed sample of Ba stars with measured white-dwarf masses could quantify the mismatch.
  • Extending the same grid to lower metallicity (e.g. Z = 0.001) would test whether the binary suppression factor changes with metallicity, since the $s$-process efficiency and mass-transfer rates both depend on Z.
  • The predicted massive Ba stars from intermediate-mass binaries without a common-envelope phase are a falsifiable population: a radial-velocity survey of s-process-enhanced early-type stars near the predicted orbital periods of 3000–8000 days could find or exclude them.
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Referee Report

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Summary. This paper upgrades the binary population synthesis code binary_c by introducing s-process intershell abundances fitted to the Karakas and Lugaro (2016) models and calibrating the third dredge-up parameters (Delta_Mc,min = -0.13 Msun, lambda_min = 0.45) against the Galactic carbon-star luminosity function of Abia et al. (2022). It then computes population-weighted yields of C, N, O, Sr, Ba, and Pb for a grid of 1000 single-star and 640,000 binary models at solar metallicity, as a function of binary fraction. The central result is that a population with binary fraction 0.7 ejects about 18% less C and about 23-25% less Sr, Ba, and Pb than a single-star-only population, while N and O yields change by only a few percent. The paper also compares predicted Ba-star surface abundances with observations, finding an overproduction of high-[Ce/Y] stars, and reports rare predicted channels such as massive Ba stars and O-rich naked He stars.

Significance. If the central result is robust, it is an important contribution to Galactic chemical evolution: it quantifies a 20-25% reduction in AGB yields for a realistic binary fraction and identifies which elements are affected. The study has notable strengths: a large and systematic model grid, an explicit population-weighting scheme, a public code version, a calibration against observed carbon stars, and a sensitivity analysis that varies several binary and AGB parameters. The relative single-to-binary yield ratios for C, N, and Ba are shown to be stable under the tested variations of alpha_CE, third dredge-up parameters, mass-loss prescriptions, and mass-transfer treatments. The main weakness is that the s-process part of the central claim rests on an untested extrapolation of intershell abundances to stars below 1.5 Msun, which the paper itself identifies as problematic in Section 5.2.

major comments (3)
  1. [§5.2 and Table 4] The Sr, Ba, and Pb yield ratios in Table 4 are not robust to the assumed intershell abundances for AGB stars below 1.5 Msun. Section 2.2 states that for stars of mass <1.5 Msun the heavy-element intershell abundances are taken from the 1.5 Msun K16 model, while Section 5.2 notes that a 1.2 Msun star likely burns 13C convectively, yielding fewer neutrons than the 1.5 Msun model, and that 63% of the overproduced high-[Ce/Y] Ba stars have AGB companions below 1.5 Msun. The sensitivity tests in Section 5.1 vary alpha_CE, third dredge-up parameters, mass-loss prescriptions, RLOF, and WRLOF, but they never vary the low-mass intershell abundances. Since Section 5.1 also reports that stars below about 2 Msun eject roughly 80% of the Ba, this systematic can affect both the absolute s-process yields and the single-to-binary ratios. A concrete test would be to recompute the population ratios after setting the below-1.5-Msun heavy intershell abundances to zero or to a lower-neutron-density model; without such a test, the s-process part of the central claim is not yet fully supported.
  2. [Abstract, §6, and Table 3] The abstract and the conclusions state that at a binary fraction of 0.7 there is a 20-25% reduction in C, Sr, Ba, and Pb yields, but Table 3 gives a C yield ratio of 0.82 at fb=0.7, i.e., an 18% reduction, and the 24% C reduction quoted in Table 3 and Section 5.1 corresponds to fb=1.0 rather than fb=0.7. The text should be corrected to distinguish the C reduction (about 18% at fb=0.7) from the heavier s-process reductions (23-25% at fb=0.7), or explicitly state the fb=1.0 values when quoting the larger reduction.
  3. [§2.1 and §3.1] The third dredge-up calibration assumes that the observed carbon stars used for the CSLF fit are mostly intrinsic AGB stars rather than extrinsic binary-polluted stars. The paper explicitly acknowledges this assumption and filters out low-luminosity GB carbon stars, but it does not quantify the sensitivity of the fitted parameters, and therefore of the absolute yields, to a possible extrinsic AGB contamination. A useful check would be to construct a CSLF from the binary grid with a range of assumed extrinsic fractions and determine how much the best-fit Delta_Mc,min and lambda_min shift; this would test whether the carbon yield reduction is robust to the central calibration assumption.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Abstract] The phrase 'approximately 50% of the abundances of the elements heavier than iron' is standard but should be attributed to a specific reference in the introduction, where it appears later; the abstract currently reads as a bald claim.
  2. [Equation (6)] The notation [X/Y] = log10(X/Y)_star - log10(X/Y)_sun is clear, but the solar ratio is written as 'log10(X/Y)_sun' only in the text; the equation would benefit from an explicit definition of the solar standard as Lodders (2003) at the point of use.
  3. [Figure 14] The right-hand panel of Figure 14 does not show the low-[Ce/Y] tail of the observed sample; the authors state 3% of Ba stars have [Ce/Y] < -0.4, but this is not visible in the plotted range, making the claimed discrepancy harder to assess.
  4. [Section 3.3.1] The sentence 'The most extreme O producers ... similar to an R Coronae Borealis star but O-rich instead of C-rich' introduces a class of objects not previously predicted; it would help to state explicitly in the text that no such object has yet been observed, as is done later.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the binary-fraction yield reductions are computed within a common code and are robust to the calibrated TDU parameters; the K16 intershell input is an acknowledged model assumption, not a disguised prediction.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is a differential comparison between single-star and binary-star populations computed with the same input physics. The reduction in C, Sr, Ba, and Pb yields at a binary fraction of 0.7 is driven by binary interactions truncating or preventing the TP-AGB phase, not by the fitted third-dredge-up parameters. Section 5.1 explicitly shows that the single-to-binary yield ratios (C ~0.75, N ~0.92, Ba ~0.67) remain nearly unchanged under variations of the third-dredge-up parameters, common-envelope efficiency, mass-loss prescriptions, and Roche-lobe overflow prescriptions. The CSLF calibration in Section 2.1 is to an external observable (the carbon-star luminosity function), and the predicted yields are a different quantity, so this is calibration rather than circularity. The K16 intershell abundances used in Section 2.2 are an input taken from published stellar models; the paper explicitly acknowledges the extrapolation to stars below 1.5 Msun and the resulting overproduction of high-[Ce/Y] Ba stars in Section 5.2, which is an honest model limitation rather than circular reasoning. Self-citations to Paper I and K16 provide prior grids and nucleosynthesis inputs, but no step in the derivation defines the predicted yield in terms of itself, fits a parameter to the data then renames it a prediction, or invokes a uniqueness theorem from the authors to force a choice. The comparison to observed Ba stars is an independent falsification test. Therefore no circular step is present.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 2 invented entities

The central claim rests on the fidelity of the binary_c synthetic AGB models and on the calibration of the third dredge-up to the carbon star luminosity function. The two fitted TDU parameters, Delta_Mc_min and lambda_min, are the most direct free parameters. The key domain assumptions are the intrinsic nature of the calibrating carbon stars, the applicability of K16 s-process yields to binary-altered stars, and the chosen initial binary distributions. The paper itself discusses these uncertainties in Section 5.

free parameters (3)
  • Delta_Mc_min = -0.13 Msun
    Constant decrease in the minimum core mass for the onset of third dredge-up, fitted to the Galactic carbon star luminosity function (Section 3.1).
  • lambda_min = 0.45
    Minimum third dredge-up efficiency, fitted to the same carbon star luminosity function (Section 3.1).
  • alpha_CE = 1.0 (baseline)
    Common envelope efficiency parameter; the baseline choice is 1.0, and it is varied to 0.5 and 2.0 in the uncertainty analysis (Section 5.1).
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The synthetic AGB models in binary_c (fits to CO-core mass, TDU efficiency, HBB temperatures, TP-AGB luminosities) are reliable for low- and intermediate-mass stars.
    Paper I and this work update these fits to Karakas and Lugaro (2016) and Doherty et al. (2015); the paper uses these as the basis for all yields.
  • ad hoc to paper The observed Galactic carbon star luminosity function used for calibration is dominated by intrinsic (single-star) carbon stars, not extrinsic binary-polluted stars.
    Section 2.1 states this assumption explicitly and argues it is motivated by the low-luminosity cut and by Izzard and Tout (2004).
  • domain assumption The s-process intershell abundances from Karakas and Lugaro (2016), including the standard 13C pocket size, apply to stars that have accreted mass or merged in binaries.
    Section 2.2 couples s-process yields to the number of third dredge-up events; Section 5.2 acknowledges this may fail for low-mass accretors (<1.5 Msun) and contributes to the [Ce/Y] overproduction.
  • domain assumption The initial distributions for primary mass (Kroupa IMF), mass ratio (uniform), and orbital period (log-uniform) approximate the true stellar population.
    Table 1 lists these distributions; they are standard choices, but the computed yield reduction depends on them.
invented entities (2)
  • Rare O-rich naked He stars from ONe-WD + He-WD mergers independent evidence
    purpose: Predicted class of stellar remnants from binary mergers that would eject O-rich material; no observed counterparts yet.
    Section 3.3.1 predicts about 5 such objects per 10^6 Msun of star-forming material and up to 2 in the Galaxy today; their distinct composition provides a falsifiable handle, though their lifetimes are highly uncertain.
  • Massive Ba stars with masses greater than 10 Msun independent evidence
    purpose: Predicted Ba star population formed from intermediate-mass binaries with massive companions; not yet observed.
    Section 4 predicts about 30 such stars in the Milky Way with specific WD companion masses, periods, and Ba star masses, making them observable in principle.

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abstract

Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars play a significant role in our understanding of the origin of the elements. They contribute to the abundances of C, N, and approximately $50\%$ of the abundances of the elements heavier than iron. An aspect often neglected in studies of AGB stars is the impact of a stellar companion on AGB stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis. In this study, we update the stellar abundances of AGB stars in the binary population synthesis code \textsc{binary\_c} and calibrate our treatment of the third dredge-up using observations of Galactic carbon stars. We model stellar populations of low- to intermediate-mass stars at solar-metallicity and examine the stellar wind contributions to C, N, O, Sr, Ba, and Pb yields at binary fractions between 0 and 1. For a stellar population with a binary fraction of 0.7, we find $\sim 20-25\%$ less C and $s$-process elements ejected than from a population composed of only single stars, and we find little change in the N and O yields. We also compare our models with observed abundances from Ba stars and find our models can reproduce most Ba star abundances, but our population estimates a higher frequency of Ba stars with a surface [Ce/Y] > $+0.2\,$dex. Our models also predict the rare existence of Ba stars with masses $> 10 \text{M}\,_\odot$.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Our best-fit to the CSLF presented in Abia et al. (2022) results when (∆Mc,min/ M⊙, λmin) = (–0.13, 0.45). We include the results for (Mc,min/ M⊙, λmin) = (–0.12, 0.4), (0.14, 0.5), and (0, 0) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Final surface C/O ratios of single stars from K16, and the standard and modified versions of BINARY_C, and our modified version of BINARY_C. The C/O ratio = 1 is marked to highlight stars that end their lives C-rich. 2   # "" '  &2 & [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Net C ejected our single stars as calculated from the standard and modified versions of BINARY_C. We compare the net C yield to those calculated from K16 and Marigo (2001) at solar-metallicity [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Net Ba yield from single AGB stars calculated from the standard and modified versions of BINARY_C compared to K16. Our modified version produces a similar Ba yield compared to K16. The standard version of binary_c achieves a peak Ba yield of 3.3 × 10–7 M⊙ at 2.9 M⊙, wh…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Elemental yields ejected by a 2 M⊙ star as calculated by K16, the standard version of BINARY_C and the modified version of BINARY_C. We show the elemental yields for all elements from Fe to Bi, excluding radioactive Tc (not reported in K16) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/fu…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: The weighted C stellar population yield as a function of the single or primary star mass of our single star population and of a population including binaries with a 0.7 binary fraction. We sum and bin all the weighted yields based on the initial primary- or single-star…
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Same as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png]
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Distribution of [C/O] ratios from our binary and single-star popu￾lations released into the interstellar medium. 0 0 00 0 00 0     0! 0! 0!       [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png]
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Evolution of the surface mass fractions of C, N, and O as a func￾tion of thermal pulse count for the single star 8.23 M⊙ model. The dotted vertical line indicates thermal pulse 14 where a common envelope event truncates the stellar evolution of a binary system with M1,…
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Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: [Ce/Y] and [Fe/H] (le) surface abundances and the [Ce/Y] distribution (right) of the predicted Ba stars compared to observed Ba stars reported in Cseh et al. (2018). The plots share the same y-axis. to eject the envelope of a common envelope system (Hurley, Tout, and…
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Distributions of WD masses (top), Ba star masses (middle) and orbital periods (bottom) for predicted Ba star systems compared to observa￾tions from Jorissen et al. (2019). The legend for all three panels is presented in the middle panel. of mass transfer (see their Eq…
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Percentage difference in the Ba ejected by our binary star population (binary fraction is 1.0) with varying common envelope and third dredge-up parameters, mass-loss rates, the Roche-lobe overflow prescription (changed to Hurley, Tout, and Pols 2002, and notated as RL…

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