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富O渐近巨星分支星风中的氧化铝尘埃产生

On the alumina dust production in the winds of O-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch stars

F. Dell'Agli, D. A. García-Hernández, C. Rossi, P. Ventura, M. Di Criscienzo, R. Schneider

摘要:

富氧渐近巨星分支(AGB)恒星经历了强烈的质量损失和有效的尘埃凝聚,它们是星际介质中尘埃的主要来源。氧化铝尘埃(Al $_2$ O $_3$)是富氧拱壳层中的一种重要尘埃成分,在质量较大且富氧的AGB星的星风中含量相当丰富。通过耦合AGB恒星核合成和尘埃的形成,我们提出了一个自洽的探索AGB星的风与祖质量之间的$\sim$ 3和7 M $_{\odot}$和金属丰度范围内的0.0003 $\le$ Z $\le$ 0.018的Al $_2$ O $_3$生产。我们发现,Al $_2$ O $_3$粒子形成在径向距离中心之间的$\sim2$和4 R $_*$(取决于金属丰度),这是在最近的银河系富O AGB星的干涉观测。铝$_2$ O $_3$尘埃的质量几乎与金属丰度成线性关系,太阳金属丰度AGB产生的氧化铝尘埃量最高(约10 $^{-3}$ M $_{\odot}$)。Al $_2$ O $_3$晶粒尺寸随着金属丰度(和初始恒星质量)的减小而减小,对于太阳金属丰度模型,Al $_2$ O $_3$晶粒的最大尺寸为$\sim$ 0.075 $μm$。有趣的是,在低金属丰度的HBB AGB恒星HV 2576中观察到的气态Al的强烈耗尽似乎与我们的模型预测的Al $_2$ O $_3$尘埃的形成一致。我们建议,铝的含量可以作为一个质量(和演化阶段)的指标,在AGB星经历HBB。

英文摘要:

The O-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars experience strong mass loss with efficient dust condensation and they are major sources of dust in the interstellar medium. Alumina dust (Al$_2$O$_3$) is an important dust component in O-rich circumstellar shells and it is expected to be fairly abundant in the winds of the more massive and O-rich AGB stars. By coupling AGB stellar nucleosynthesis and dust formation, we present a self-consistent exploration on the Al$_2$O$_3$ production in the winds of AGB stars with progenitor masses between $\sim$3 and 7 M$_{\odot}$ and metallicities in the range 0.0003 $\le$ Z $\le$ 0.018. We find that Al$_2$O$_3$ particles form at radial distances from the centre between $\sim2$ and 4 R$_*$ (depending on metallicity), which is in agreement with recent interferometric observations of Galactic O-rich AGB stars. The mass of Al$_2$O$_3$ dust is found to scale almost linearly with metallicity, with solar metallicity AGBs producing the highest amount (about 10$^{-3}$ M$_{\odot}$) of alumina dust. The Al$_2$O$_3$ grain size decreases with decreasing metallicity (and initial stellar mass) and the maximum size of the Al$_2$O$_3$ grains is $\sim$0.075 $μm$ for the solar metallicity models. Interestingly, the strong depletion of gaseous Al observed in the low-metallicity HBB AGB star HV 2576 seems to be consistent with the formation of Al$_2$O$_3$ dust as predicted by our models. We suggest that the content of Al may be used as a mass (and evolutionary stage) indicator in AGB stars experiencing HBB.

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