Mira: Still Wondrous after 400 Years

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Dec 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aas...189.9607m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 189th AAS Meeting, #96.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1399

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Mira (omicron Ceti AB) was discovered as a variable star 400 years ago. Mira is the prototype of a class of pulsating red asymptotic giants that under goes large (up to 5 mag) brightness variations with periods of a few hundred days. Mira itself is more complex (and more interesting) because it is a binary system composed of the luminous red (M4-7 III) star (Mira A) and a hot, accreting component 0.4 arcsec distant (Mira B). Mira A (and Mira-type stars in general) have large mass loss rates in the range of

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