Speaker
Dr
Oscar Straniero
(INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica))
Description
New evolutionary models of low-mass stars that include axion productions due to Primakoff, Bremsstrahlung and Compton scattering are presented. These set of models has been used to calculate isochrones, luminosity functions (LFs) and synthetic colour-magnitude (CM) diagrams to be compared with their observational counterparts, i.e. LFs and CM diagrams of Galactic Globular Clusters stars. Based on these comparisons, updated constraints to both the axion-photon and axion-electron couplings are provided.
Primary author
Dr
Oscar Straniero
(INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica))
Co-authors
Dr
Alessandro Mirizzi
(University of Bari (Italy))
Dr
Inma Dominguez
(University of Granada (Spain))
Dr
Maurizio Giannotti
(Barry University (Florida, USA))
