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Effects of New Opacity on the Post-AGB Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

M. Kato
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Keio University, Yokohama 223, Japan
I. Hachisu
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Science and Astronomy, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153, Japan

Abstract

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Using the OPAL opacity, we have calculated the post-AGB evolutions of low mass stars. It is newly found that optically thick wind occurs for Mcore > 0.55M and the evolutionary time scale is drastically shortened.

Type
IV. Planetary Nebulae Connection: Evolution from the AGB
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1993