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Resolving the mass loss from red supergiants by high angular resolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2017

Keiichi Ohnaka
Keiichi Ohnaka*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Católica del Norte, Avenida Angamos 0610, Antofagasta, Chile e-mail: k1.ohnaka@gmail.com
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Abstract

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Despite its importance on late stages of the evolution of massive stars, the mass loss from red supergiants (RSGs) is a long-standing problem. To tackle this problem, it is essential to observe the wind acceleration region close to the star with high spatial resolution. While the mass loss from RSGs is often assumed to be spherically symmetric with a monotonically accelerating wind, there is mounting observational evidence that the reality is much more complex. I review the recent progress in high spatial resolution observations of RSGs, encompassing from the circumstellar envelope on rather large spatial scales (~100 stellar radii) to milliarcsecond-resolution aperture-synthesis imaging of the surface and the atmosphere of RSGs with optical and infrared long-baseline interferometers.

Keywords

stars: mass lossstars: imagingstars: atmospheres(stars:) supergiants(stars:) circumstellar matterinfrared: starstechniques: high angular resolutiontechniques: interferometerstechniques: polarimetric
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 12 , Symposium S329: The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars , November 2016 , pp. 97 - 103
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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