Calculations of the outflow velocity of envelopes of cool giants

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Jun 1994

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Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 286, no. 2, p. 523-534

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

124

Cool Stars, Giant Stars, Momentum Transfer, Stellar Activity, Stellar Envelopes, Stellar Mass Ejection, Supergiant Stars, Velocity Distribution, Hydroxyl Emission, Infrared Radiation, Metallicity

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We study the transfer of momentum from photons to dust grains to (molecular) gas in the outflow around cool giants (carbon-stars, Mira variables and OH/IR stars) beyond the radius where the dust grains condense. The problem is circular: radiation pressure determines the outflow velocity of the dust and thus also the dust density; on the other hand the dust density determines, via radiative transfer effects, the spectrum of the photons and thus the effective radiation pressure. This circular problem is solved by a rapidly converging iterative procedure. We compare our predictions with observed properties of a large sample of OH/IR stars and of Miras and find a good qualitative and quantitative agreement. We confirm a conclusion by Wood et al. (1993) that very luminous OH/IR stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) owe their low outflow velocity to the low dust-to-gas ratio, a consequence of the low metallicity of the LMC. Similarly we consider a sample of about 100 OH/IR stars within 200 pc from the galactic center that has an average asymptotic giant branch (AGB) luminosity and an uncommonly high value of vout; we conclude that these stars are probably very metal rich, perhaps even more than the stars in the Baade window studied by Rich (1990).

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