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Photometric and Polarimetric Observations of AGB and Post AGB Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

N. D. Melikian
Affiliation:
Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory. Ashtarak Aragatsotn District. Byurakan. Armenia
C. Magnan
Affiliation:
GRAAL - CC 72 University de Montpellier II. 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05. France
A. A. Karapetian
Affiliation:
Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory. Ashtarak Aragatsotn District. Byurakan. Armenia
J. M. Sarkissian
Affiliation:
CSIRO Parkes Observatory. PO Box 276. Parkes NSW 2870. Australia

Abstract

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Photometric and polarimetric observations of Long-Period Variables (LPVs), carried out at Byurakan Observatory over the last few years, have yielded some interesting results. In particular, one of the important results obtained for Mira type variables is that there is a certain correlation between brightness and polarization: the maximum degree of polarization is midway on the increasing branch of the light curve and in all probability its change has a periodic character. More recently an important result has been obtained for a post AGB star SAO 124414. The polarimetric and photometric observations of this star were carried out over a period of 3 years. At an almost constant brightness, strong, irregular changes of light polarization were observed in three bands (BVR) of the spectrum. The analysis of the observations does not show periodicity in changes of polarization. In this report the observational results for SAO 124414 are presented. In the study of the evolution of red giants and supergiants, future observations of this star taken simultaneously in optical and radio wavelengths, could be very significant.

Type
Part III: Planetary Nebulae in the Scheme of Stellar Evolution
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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