Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jun 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992a%26a...259l..39m&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 259, no. 2, p. L39-L42.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
66
Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars, Binary Stars, Metallicity, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Winds, Abundance, Companion Stars, Heavy Elements, Stellar Envelopes
Scientific paper
Certain A-F supergiants show almost solar photospheric abundances of C, N, O, S, and Zn, while Fe, Mg, Ca, Si, Cr, and other elements are more than two orders of magnitude below solar. We suggest that the present photosphere was originally solar in composition; the missing elements were incorporated into dust grains that were separated from the atmosphere. The heavy-element-depleted gas comprises the present photosphere. There are two possible mechanisms by which this process might take place: capture by the presently visible star of the depleted gas from a binary companions, or the rapid termination of a vigorous stellar wind in a single star, so that the grains are blown outward through the expanding envelope. Besides the abundance peculiarities, the hypothesis explains why some objects have carbon-rich dust outside of an oxygen rich photosphere, why these stars have the rather narrow range of (T(eff), log g) near (7000 K, 1.0), and why some might have a great deal of circumstellar dust while others have little. Perhaps the most serious objection to the hypothesis is the possible presence of stellar winds observed in the winds of the peculiar post-AGB stars themselves.
Lamers Henny J. G. L. M.
Mathis John S.
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