The multiple IR signatures of C-rich sources in the IRAS low-resolution spectra

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Carbon, Infrared Astronomy Satellite, Infrared Signatures, Late Stars, Stellar Spectra, Color-Color Diagram, Spectral Resolution

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The systematic application to the IRAS Catalog of Low Resolution Spectra (LRS) of a smoothing and averaging procedure described in previous papers uncovers the existence of 3 different types of spectral shapes which display the 11.3 μm feature ususally assigned to SiC and considered a signpost of C-rich stars. Most optical spectral types identified in the present sample are associated with only one of the spectral types: that which is matched by polluted α-SiC laboratory grains. Finally, 24 spectra with an SiC feature (i.e. associated with carbon-rich circumstellar shells) were found to be associated with oxygen-rich photospheres (i.e. stars of optical spectral type M). The present sample of objects differs in many respects from optically selected samples of carbon stars; its circumstellar shells are thicker and colder.

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