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红超巨星的物理性质:比较理论和观测

The Physical Properties of Red Supergiants: Comparing Theory and Observations

Philip Massey, Emily M. Levesque, Bertrand Plez, K. A. G. Olsen

摘要:

红超巨星(RSG)是中等质量恒星(小于25个太阳质量)生命中的一个演化阶段。多年来,它们在H-R图中的位置与进化模型不一致。使用MARCS恒星大气,我们已经确定了新的有效温度和辐射光度的RSG在银河系,LMC和SMC,我们的工作已经导致更好的协议与进化模型。我们还发现了由于星周尘埃而导致的显著视觉灭绝的证据。虽然在银河系中,RSG只贡献了一小部分(小于1%)的尘埃到星际介质(ISM),在星暴星系或星系在大的回望时间,我们预计RSG可能是主要的尘埃源。我们现在正在利用星系M31和WLM将这项工作扩展到更高和更低金属丰度的RSG。

英文摘要:

Red supergiants (RSGs) are an evolved stage in the life of intermediate massive stars (than than 25 solar masses). For many years, their location in the H-R diagram was at variance with the evolutionary models. Using the MARCS stellar atmospheres, we have determined new effective temperatures and bolometric luminosities for RSGs in the Milky Way, LMC, and SMC, and our work has resulted in much better agreement with the evolutionary models. We have also found evidence of significant visual extinction due to circumstellar dust. Although in the Milky Way the RSGs contribute only a small fraction (than than 1 percent) of the dust to the interstellar medium (ISM), in starburst galaxies or galaxies at large look-back times, we expect that RSGs may be the main dust source. We are in the process of extending this work now to RSGs of higher and lower metallicities using the galaxies M31 and WLM.

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