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Dec 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990apj...365..317j&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 365, Dec. 10, 1990, p. 317-320. Research supported by NASA.
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G Stars, Giant Stars, Stellar Envelopes, A Stars, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Luminosity, Stellar Models
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The IRAS data base has been searched for evidence for circumstellar dust around luminosity class III G giants, stars whose progenitors are mostly main-sequence A stars. While 20 percent of all main-sequence A dwarfs have dust which absorbs at least 5 x 10 to the -6th of the light from the star, less than 3 percent of all G giants have such clouds. One possible explanation for the absence of detectable dust debris around the G giants is that the Poynting-Robertson effect leads to the decay of the dust around the main-sequence A stars, and that the supply of these grains is not renewed indefinitely. In this case, the derived upper limit to the grain radius of about 0.2 cm for the bulk of the grains emitting the far-infrared emission is consistent with data derived from ground-based submillimeter observations. Another possible explanation for the lack of grains around at least some G giants is that the dust around the original A dwarf is mainly composed of relatively volatile material like water ice which thermally evaporates in a relatively short time during the giant phase of higher luminosity.
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