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EDP Sciences Astronomy & Astrophysics 679
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    Aims. We aim to estimate the impact on the stellar evolution of the uncertainties in the 3 α and the 12 C( α , γ ) 16 O reaction rates, taking into account the recent improvements in their precision. Methods. We calculated models of low- and intermediate-mass stars for different values of 3 α and 12 C( α , γ ) 16 O reaction rates. The 3 α reaction rate was varied up to ±24% around the reference value, while the 12 C( α , γ ) 16 O reaction rate was varied by up to ±35%, taking into account different recent values for these quantities available in the literature. The models were calculated with the FRANEC evolutionary code for two different initial chemical compositions, namely, Y = 0.246, Z = 0.0001, and Y = 0.28, Z = 0.015 to represent different stellar populations. A M = 0.67 M ⊙ model was chosen as representative of the first class (halo ancient stars), while for the second composition (disk stars), the M = 1.5 M ⊙ and M = 2.5 M ⊙ models were considered. The impact of 3 α and 12 C( α , γ ) 16 O reaction rates on the central He-burning lifetime and the asymptotic giant branch (AGB) lifetime, as well as the mass of the C/O core at the central He exhaustion and the internal C and O abundances, was investigated. Results. A variation of the 12 C( α , γ ) 16 O reaction rates within its nominal error resulted in marginal differences in the analysed features among the three considered stellar masses, except for the C/O abundances. The central He-burning lifetime changed by less than 4%, while the AGB lifetime was affected only at the 1% level. The internal C and O abundances showed greater variation, with a change of about 15%. The uncertainty in the 3 α reaction rate mainly influences the C and O central abundances (up to 10%) for all the models considered, and the AGB lifetime for intermediate mass stars (up to 5%). Most of the investigated features were affected by less than 2%. Conclusions. The current uncertainty in the explored reaction rates has a negligible effect on the predicted evolutionary time scale with respect to other uncertainty sources. On the other hand, the variability in the chemical profile left at the end of the shell He-burning phase is still relevant. We also checked that there is no interaction between the effects of the two reaction rates, as would be expected in the case of small perturbations.

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