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小麦哲伦云C星星周包层中尘埃的约束性质:碳尘埃的光学常数和粒度

Constraining dust properties in Circumstellar Envelopes of C-stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud: optical constants and grain size of Carbon dust

Ambra Nanni, Paola Marigo, Martin A. T. Groenewegen, Bernhard Aringer, Léo Girardi, Giada Pastorelli, Alessandro Bressan, Sara Bladh

摘要:

我们提出了一种新的方法,旨在限制典型的大小和光学性质的碳尘埃颗粒在拱星信封(CSE)的富碳恒星(C星)在小麦哲伦云(SMC)。为了实现这一目标,我们应用我们最近的尘埃生长的描述,再加上辐射转移代码的CSE的C-恒星沿TP-AGB的演变,我们计算光谱和颜色。然后,我们比较我们的建模颜色在近红外和中红外(NIR和MIR)波段与观察到的,测试不同的假设,在我们的尘埃计划,并采用几个数据集的光学常数的碳尘埃在文献中。在我们的尘埃方案中采用的不同假设改变了产生的碳颗粒的典型尺寸。我们通过选择粒度和光学常数的组合来约束碳粉的性质,该组合最好同时在NIR和MIR中再现几种颜色。在某些情况下,光学性质和粒度的不同选择导致NIR和MIR颜色的差异大于两个数量级。我们的结论是,所观察到的NIR和MIR颜色的完整集合最好由尺寸在$\sim$ 0.035和$\sim$ 0.12~ $μ$ m之间的小颗粒再现,而不是由尺寸在$\sim0.2$和$0.7$ ~ $μ$ m之间的大颗粒再现。大颗粒不能再现近红外和中红外颜色似乎与所采用的光学数据集无关。我们还发现了一个可能的趋势,这些恒星的CSE的质量损失和/或碳过剩的晶粒尺寸。

英文摘要:

We present a new approach aimed at constraining the typical size and optical properties of carbon dust grains in Circumstellar envelopes (CSEs) of carbon-rich stars (C-stars) in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). To achieve this goal, we apply our recent dust growth description, coupled with a radiative transfer code to the CSEs of C-stars evolving along the TP-AGB, for which we compute spectra and colors. Then we compare our modeled colors in the near- and mid-infrared (NIR and MIR) bands with the observed ones, testing different assumptions in our dust scheme and employing several data sets of optical constants for carbon dust available in the literature. Different assumptions adopted in our dust scheme change the typical size of the carbon grains produced. We constrain carbon dust properties by selecting the combination of grain size and optical constants which best reproduces several colors in the NIR and MIR at the same time. The different choices of optical properties and grain size lead to differences in the NIR and MIR colors greater than two magnitudes in some cases. We conclude that the complete set of observed NIR and MIR colors are best reproduced by small grains, with sizes between $\sim$0.035 and $\sim$0.12~$μ$m, rather than by large grains between $\sim0.2$ and $0.7$~$μ$m. The inability of large grains to reproduce NIR and MIR colors seems independent of the adopted optical data set. We also find a possible trend of the grain size with mass-loss and/or carbon excess in the CSEs of these stars.

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