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Far-infrared circumstellar debris shells: Clues to the evolution of massive stars?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R.E. Stencel  and
C.D. Garmany
R.E. Stencel
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics and Space AstronomyUniversity of ColoradoBoulder, Colorado 80309-0391U.S.A.
C.D. Garmany
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics and Space AstronomyUniversity of ColoradoBoulder, Colorado 80309-0391U.S.A.

Abstract:

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A survey of the infrared properties of late-type supergiant stars, using the IRAS database, reveals that about 25% of the stars possess resolved, extended circumstellar shells. These shells are typically several arc minutes in apparent size and therefore on the scale of parsecs at the source. Furthermore, among the resolved sources, there is an inverse correlation between physical size of the infrared shell and B-V color, suggesting that these shells are formed while the objects are red supergiants, but continue to expand ballistically, while the star evolves blueward from that extreme. These shells may be the material swept up into ring nebulae when the central star develops a fast wind.

Type
Section II: Poster Papers, A Brief List of Catalogs, and Index
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 113: Physics of Luminous Blue Variables , 1989 , pp. 293 - 294
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1989

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