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IR Emission from Dusty Winds — Scaling and Self-Similarity Properties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Moshe Elitzur  and
Željko Ivezić
Moshe Elitzur
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0055, U.S.A.
Željko Ivezić
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0055, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Infrared emission from radiatively heated dust possesses general scaling properties. The spectral shape is independent of overall luminosity when the inner boundary of the dusty region is controlled by dust sublimation; the only relevant property of the heating radiation is its frequency profile. For a given type of dust grains, the emission from red giants and supergiants is essentially controlled by a single parameter - the overall dust optical depth. This leads to tight correlations among different spectral properties that explain many available observations and enable systematic studies of large data bases.

Type
Session VIII — Circumstellar Shells
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 177: The Carbon Star Phenomenon , 2000 , pp. 391 - 398
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 2000 

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