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渐近巨星分支星的脉动触发尘埃产生

Pulsation-triggered dust production by asymptotic giant branch stars

Iain McDonald, Elvire de Beck, Albert A. Zijlstra, Eric Lagadec

摘要:

在CO J =(2-1)线上观测到11颗邻近的短周期(50-130天)渐近巨星分支(AGB)星。对有证据表明产生尘埃的物体进行了探测(Ks-[22] >~ 0.55等; AK Hya,V744 Cen,RU Crt,alpha Her)。没有发现低于这个极限的恒星(BQ Gem,eps Oct,NU Pav,II Hya,CL Hyi,ET Vir,SX Pav)。KS-[22]发现颜色跟踪质量损失率在一个数量级内。这证实了现有的结果,表明在脉动周期约60天的AGB恒星质量损失率增加了100倍,类似于已知的“超级风”触发在约300天。在~60 ~300天之间,发现质量损失率和风速近似恒定,约为每年3.7 x 10^-7太阳质量,约为8 km/s,虽然这还没有经过观测偏差的校正,但质量损失率的快速增加表明,有必要重新校准恒星演化模型中对AGB质量损失的处理。质量损失率和光度之间相对缺乏相关性(对于L <~ 6300太阳光度),这表明低光度AGB星风的质量损失率主要由脉动决定,而不是尘埃上的辐射压力,后者只决定外流速度。我们预测,质量损失率从低光度AGB星,表现出光学薄风,应该在很大程度上独立的金属丰度,但可能是强烈依赖于恒星质量。

英文摘要:

Eleven nearby (<300 pc), short-period (50-130 days) asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars were observed in the CO J = (2-1) line. Detections were made towards objects that have evidence for dust production (Ks-[22] >~ 0.55 mag; AK Hya, V744 Cen, RU Crt, alpha Her). Stars below this limit were not detected (BQ Gem, eps Oct, NU Pav, II Hya, CL Hyi, ET Vir, SX Pav). Ks-[22] colour is found to trace mass-loss rate to well within an order of magnitude. This confirms existing results, indicating a factor of 100 increase in AGB-star mass-loss rates at a pulsation period of ~60 days, similar to the known "superwind" trigger at ~300 days. Between ~60 and ~300 days, an approximately constant mass-loss rate and wind velocity of ~3.7 x 10^-7 solar masses per year and ~8 km/s is found. While this has not been corrected for observational biases, this rapid increase in mass-loss rate suggests a need to recalibrate the treatment of AGB mass loss in stellar evolution models. The comparative lack of correlation between mass-loss rate and luminosity (for L <~ 6300 solar luminosities) suggests that the mass-loss rates of low-luminosity AGB-star winds are set predominantly by pulsations, not radiation pressure on dust, which sets only the outflow velocity. We predict that mass-loss rates from low-luminosity AGB stars, which exhibit optically thin winds, should be largely independent of metallicity, but may be strongly dependent on stellar mass.

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