A HIFI view on circumstellar H2O in M-type AGB stars: radiative transfer, velocity profiles, and H2O line cooling

2016/05/02 by M. Maercker, T. Danilovich, H. Olofsson +4
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Atmospheric Ozone and Climate #Atmospheric radiative transfer codes #Circumstellar envelope #Emission spectrum #Geometry #Line (geometry) #Optics #Physics #Radiative cooling #Radiative transfer #Spectral line #Stars #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph.GA #astro-ph.SR

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201628310

Accepted May 2016

arxiv created 2016/05/02 · openalex publication_date 2016/05/03 · arxiv updated 2016/06/15 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Aims. We aim to constrain the temperature and velocity structures, and H2O abundances in the winds of a sample of M-type asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. We further aim to determine the effect of H2O line cooling on the energy balance in the inner circumstellar envelope.

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