Dust properties in the circumstellar environment of carbon stars

Autor(en)
M. Mečina, B. Aringer, M. Brunner, F. Kerschbaum, M. A. T. Groenewegen, W. Nowotny
Abstrakt

Herschel PACS imaging observations of carbon stars show well-resolved spherically symmetric detached shells around several objects. In the case of U Hya the shell is additionally detected in scattered visible light and in the far UV. The remarkable spherical symmetry justifies a straightforward application of 1D models to constrain the properties of the dust envelope, whose modulation in density is a consequence of short epochs of highly increased mass loss and/or wind-wind interaction between outflows of different velocity. We perform dust radiative transfer calculations, first based on a parametrised density distribution, and in a more sophisticated approach on a combination of stationary wind models. The impact of dust properties, particularly grain geometry, on the results is highlighted.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Astrophysik
Externe Organisation(en)
Università degli Studi di Padova, Royal Observatory of Belgium
Band
14
Seiten
466-467
Anzahl der Seiten
2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921318005082
Publikationsdatum
12-2019
ÖFOS 2012
103003 Astronomie, 103004 Astrophysik
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nutrition and Dietetics, Medicine (miscellaneous), Space and Planetary Science
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/d2005fca-0fd7-431e-903f-7ea78060c6c3