Dust-enshrouded Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood

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2001-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0103294v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 326 (2001) 490

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

27 pages, 20 figures, accepted for MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04511.x

A study is made of a sample of 58 dust-enshrouded Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars (including 2 possible post AGB stars), of which 27 are carbon-rich and 31 are oxygen-rich. These objects were originally identified by Jura & Kleinmann as nearby (within about 1 kpc of the sun) AGB stars with high mass-loss rates, greater than 1E-6 solar masses per year. Ground-based near-infrared photometry, data obtained by IRAS and kinematic data from the literature are combined to investigate the properties of these stars. The light amplitude in the near-infrared is found to be correlated with period, and this amplitude decreases with increasing wavelength. Statistical tests show that there is no reason to suspect any difference in the period distributions of the carbon- and oxygen-rich stars for periods less than 1000 days, and no carbon-rich star has a period longer than 1000 days. The colours are consistent with those of cool stars with evolved circumstellar dust-shells. Luminosities and distances are estimated using a period-luminosity relation. Mass-loss rates, estimated from the 60 micron fluxes, show a correlation with pulsation period and is tightly correlated with the K-[12] colour. The kinematics and scale-height of the sample shows that the sources with periods less than 1000 days must have low mass main-sequence progenitors. It is argued that the three oxygen-rich stars with periods over 1000 days probably had intermediate mass main-sequence progenitors with remaining stars having an average progenitor mass of about 1.3 solar masses. The average lifetime of stars in this phase is estimated to be about 4.0E4 years, indicating they will undergo at most one more thermal pulse before leaving the AGB.

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