Investigation of the Helium Enhancement in a Super Lithium Rich Giant HD 77361
B. P. Hema (1), Gajendra Pandey (1), ((1) Indian Institute of, Astrophysics, Koramangala II Block, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India)

TL;DR
This study investigates helium enhancement in the lithium-rich giant HD 77361 by analyzing MgH and Mg I lines, finding significant He enrichment which offers insights into stellar Li and He enrichment processes.
Contribution
The paper presents the first evidence of helium enhancement in a Li-rich giant using spectral line analysis, providing a new perspective on stellar chemical enrichment.
Findings
MgH line-derived Mg abundance is lower than Mg I line-derived abundance.
He/H ratio in HD 77361 is estimated to be 0.4±0.1, higher than the normal 0.1.
Helium enhancement is linked to Li enrichment in the star.
Abstract
In this work, the helium-enhancement (He-enhancement) in the lithium-rich (Li-rich) K-giant HD 77361 is investigated using the strengths of the MgH band and the MgI lines. The detailed abundance analysis and also the synthesis of the MgH band and the Mg I lines has been carried out for HD 77361. One would expect, within uncertainties, same Mg abundance from both the MgH and Mg I lines. But, we found that Mg abundance derived from MgH lines is significantly less than the abundance from Mg I lines, and this difference cannot be reconciled by changing the stellar parameters within the uncertainties, implying He enhancement in star's photosphere. The He enhancement in the atmospheres is estimated by using models of different He/H ratios so that both the lines, MgH as well as Mg I, return the same Mg abundance for the adopted model's He/H ratio. We found He/H=0.4+/-0.1 as the value for HD…
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