Titanium Carbide Nanocrystals in Circumstellar Environments

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Apr 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000sci...288..313v&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 288, Issue 5464, pp. 313-316 (2000).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Meteorites contain micrometer-sized graphite grains with embedded titanium carbide grains. Although isotopic analysis identifies asymptotic giant branch stars as the birth sites of these grains, there is no direct observational identification of these grains in astronomical sources. We report that infrared wavelength spectra of gas-phase titanium carbide nanocrystals derived in the laboratory show a prominent feature at a wavelength of 20.1 micrometers, which compares well to a similar feature in observed spectra of postasymptotic giant branch stars. It is concluded that titanium carbide forms during a short (approximately 100 years) phase of catastrophic mass loss (>0.001 solar masses per year) in dying, low-mass stars.

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