Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jun 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006sf2a.conf..589g&link_type=abstract
SF2A-2006: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics Eds.: D. Barret, F. Casoli, G.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Red giant stars are responsible for 70% of the recycling of stellar matter in the local interstellar medium (ISM) through mass loss, mainly along the AGB sequence. Most of the matter in circumstellar shells is hydrogen in atomic (or molecular form). However, up to now, atomic hydrogen has remained largely undetected due to the weakness of its emission, the merging of circumstellar matter with the ambient ISM and the confusion from foreground and background interstellar hydrogen along the same line of sight. With the upgraded Nancay Radiotelescope, we have started a new search for HI at 21 cm towards AGB stars and post-AGBs, including PNs. We illustrate our results on one case, EP~Aqr, which shows that the contamination by interstellar emission must be treated with great care and discuss the prospects with the SKA. In order to sort out the genuine circumstellar HI emission from the interstellar one, it is necessary to map large areas of the sky (at all angular scales from sub-arcsec to degrees) with high spectral resolution, high sensitivity and a large dynamical range.
Bertre Th. Le
Gerard Emmanuelle
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