TY - GEN
T1 - A mid-infrared interferometric study of the circumstellar environment of dusty oh/ir stars with vlti/midi
AU - Driebe, T.
AU - Ohnaka, K.
AU - Murakawa, K.
AU - Hofmann, K. H.
AU - Schertl, D.
AU - Weigelt, G.
AU - Verhoelst, T.
AU - Chesneau, O.
AU - Domiciano De Souza, A.
AU - Riechers, D.
AU - Schöller, M.
AU - Wittkowski, M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2009, Springer Netherlands. All rights reserved.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - OH/IR stars are evolved stars exhibiting large infrared excess as well as prominent OH maser emission. The vast majority of this heterogeneous object class are highly-evolved low- and intermediate-mass stars ascending the upper part of the asymptotic giant branch (AGB). Thus, these stars are in the final phase of their AGB evolution which is characterized by intensive mass loss with mass-loss rates that can reach up to 10−4 M⊙. This high mass loss leads to the development of an extended, usually optically thick dusty circumstellar envelope which can be well studied with infrared-interferometric observations.
AB - OH/IR stars are evolved stars exhibiting large infrared excess as well as prominent OH maser emission. The vast majority of this heterogeneous object class are highly-evolved low- and intermediate-mass stars ascending the upper part of the asymptotic giant branch (AGB). Thus, these stars are in the final phase of their AGB evolution which is characterized by intensive mass loss with mass-loss rates that can reach up to 10−4 M⊙. This high mass loss leads to the development of an extended, usually optically thick dusty circumstellar envelope which can be well studied with infrared-interferometric observations.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4020-9190-2_21
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4020-9190-2_21
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85034657389
SN - 9780387727677
SN - 9780387876207
SN - 9781402055720
SN - 9781402069321
SN - 9781402088674
SN - 9781402091896
SN - 9781402091896
SN - 9781441981608
SN - 9781441983688
SN - 9783540758259
SN - 9783642033230
SN - 9783642103216
SN - 9783642103513
SN - 9783642113406
SN - 9783642172502
SN - 9789048133994
SN - 9789048134984
T3 - Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
SP - 125
EP - 126
BT - Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
A2 - Moorwood, Alan
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
T2 - Workshop on Science with the VLT in the ELT Era, 2007
Y2 - 8 October 2007 through 12 October 2007
ER -