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  • 7 - Binary Post-AGB Stars as Tracers of Stellar Evolution

  • Edited by Giacomo Beccari, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Henri M. J. Boffin, European Southern Observatory, Garching
  • Book:
    The Impact of Binary Stars on Stellar Evolution
    Published online:
    05 April 2019
    Print publication:
    18 April 2019, pp 92-105

  • Summary

    In this chapter, the focus is on the properties of post–Asymptotic Giant Branch (post-AGB) stars in binary systems. Their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are very characteristic: they show a near-infrared excess, indicative of the presence of warm dust, while the central stars are too hot to be in a dust-production evolutionary phase. This allows for an efficient detection of binary post-AGB candidates. It is now well established that the near-infrared excess is produced by the inner rim of a stable dusty disc that surrounds the binary system. These discs are scaled-up versions of protoplanetary discs and form a second generation of stable Keplerian discs. They are likely formed during a binary interaction process when the primary was on ascending the AGB. The chapter summarises what has been learnt so far from the observational properties of these post-AGB binaries. The impact of the creation, lifetime and evolution of the circumbinary discs on the evolution of the system is yet to be fully understood.