On the difference between type E and A OH/IR stars

Details On the difference between type E and A OH/IR stars On the difference between type E and A OH/IR stars

2005-03-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503558v1

Astron.J. 121 (2001) 2752-2757

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables

Scientific paper

10.1086/320380

The observed SEDs of a sample of 60 OH/IR stars are fitted using a radiative transfer model of a dusty envelope. Among the whole sample, 21 stars have reliable phase-lag distances while the others have less accurate distances. L*-P,Mlr-P and Mlr-L* relations have been plotted for these stars. It is found that type E (with emission feature at 10um and type A (with absorption feature at 10um) OH/IR stars have different L*-P and Mlr-L* relations while both of them follow a single Mlr-P relation. The type E stars are proven to be located in the area without large scale dense interstellar medium while the type A stars are located probably in dense interstellar medium. It is argued here that this may indicate the two types of OH/IR stars have different chemical composition or zero age main sequence mass and so evolve in different ways. This conclusion has reinforced the argument by Chen et al.(2001) who reached a similar conclusion from the galactic distribution of about 1000 OH/IR stars with the IRAS low-resolution spectra (LRS).

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