Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-08-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/317832
We have observed the intermediate regions of the circumstellar envelope of Mira (o Ceti) in photospheric light scattered by three vibration-rotation transitions of the fundamental band of CO, from low-excited rotational levels of the ground vibrational state, at an angular distance of beta = 2"-7" away from the star. The data were obtained with the Phoenix spectrometer mounted on the 4 m Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak. The spatial resolution is approximately 0.5" and seeing limited. Our observations provide absolute fluxes, leading to an independent new estimate of the mass-loss rate of approximately 3e-7 Msun/yr, as derived from a simple analytic wind model. We find that the scattered intensity from the wind of Mira for 2" < beta < 7" decreases as beta^-3, which suggests a time constant mass-loss rate, when averaged over 100 years, over the past 1200 years.
Eriksson Kimmo
Gustafsson Bengt
Hinkle Kenneth H.
Ryde Nils
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