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Dust formation in oxygen-rich circumstellar shells around long–period variables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
We present the first steps of our work aimed at a consistent time-dependent modeling of oxygen–rich circumstellar dust shells (CDS) around pulsating AGB stars. The nature of the most likely nucleation seeds is investigated for this situation and we find that TiO2 is a most promising candidate to serve as the primary condensate, forming already at temperatures well above 1 000 K. These nuclei evolve to macroscopic dust grains by heterogeneous growth processes involving several chemical species. We investigate the varying chemical composition of the resulting dust grains as they evolve as a function of time in a fluid element moving through the CDS of an oxygen–rich long-period variable star (LPV).
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- Part 3. Formation, Composition, and Processing of Dust
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 191: Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars , 1999 , pp. 233 - 238
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999
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