Grain formation in the expanding gas flow around cool luminous stars

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Cosmic Dust, Gas Expansion, Interstellar Matter, Stellar Envelopes, Stellar Mass Ejection, Grain Boundaries, Interstellar Extinction, Magnesium, Silicates

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The authors studied grain formation process and flow structure and around cool luminous mass-loss stars. The nucleation and growth theory of Yamamoto and Hasegawa was extended to the case of expanding gas flow. The following stellar parameters were chosen: stellar mass Mhbar = 1 M_sun;, effective temperature Thbar = 3000K, stellar luminosity Lhbar from 7.5×103 to 2.0×104L_sun;, and mass-loss rate |M| from 1.0×10-6 to 1.0×10-4M_sun; yr-1. Main results of the calculations are; (1) grain condensation temperature Tc ≅ 980 ≡ 1080K; (2) total gas pressure at the condensation point Pt ≅ 6×10-11 ≡ 6×10-9 atm; (3) scale parameter Λc ≅ 103 ≡ 6×104; and (4) final grain size rf = 400 Å ≡ 1 μm.

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