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Time variations of IR spectra and dust properties in carbon-rich Mira variables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Hyun-il Sung
Affiliation:
Korea Astronomy Observatory, 61-1, Whaam-Dong, Youseong-Gu, Taejeon 305-348, Korea
Sang-gak Lee
Affiliation:
Astronomy Program, SEES, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea

Abstract

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We have studied variations of physical parameters in the circumstellar envelopes of carbon-rich Mira variables at different pulsation phases. After comparing the ISO/SWS spectra of these stars with spectral energy distributions calculated from models, we could find the best-fitted parameters for the physical state of the dust envelope at each phase. The variations of the parameters effective temperature, fraction of SiC grains, mass-loss rates, and inner radius of shell, are found to have nearly the same trend as that of the light curve. The other parameters grain size, optical depth, radius of central star and dust temperature at the inner boundary of envelope, are inversely varying to the light curve.

Type
Part 5. Red Giants, Miras, post-AGB stars and proto-planetary nebulae
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004

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