Nucleosynthesis in asymptotic giant branch stars: Relevance for galactic enrichment and solar system formation

▪ Abstract We present a review of nucleosynthesis in AGB stars outlining the development of theoretical models and their relationship to observations. We focus on the new high resolution codes with...

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