The<i>Gaia</i>-ESO Survey: revisiting the Li-rich giant problem
The<i>Gaia</i>-ESO Survey: revisiting the Li-rich giant problem
The discovery of lithium-rich giants contradicts expectations from canonical stellar evolution. Here we report on the serendipitous discovery of 20 Li-rich giants observed during the Gaia-ESO Survey, which includes the first nine Li-rich giant stars known towards the CoRoT fields. Most of our Li-rich giants have near-solar metallicities and stellar …