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Our Sun. II. Early Mass Loss of 0.1 Msun and the Case of the Missing Lithium

[IMAGE: Sun (and Mars)] Arnold I. Boothroyd (CITA), I.-Juliana Sackmann (Caltech), and William A. Fowler (Caltech)

Astrophysical Journal, 377, 318-329 (1991)

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NOTE THAT the solar lithium depletion CANNOT be due mainly to mass loss, while pre-main-sequence lithium depletion is larger than assumed in this Sun II paper: see discussion and improved models in our recent Sun V paper.

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