Published December 1989 | Version v1
Report

IR emission from circumstellar envelopes of C-rich stars

  • 1. European Space Agency, European Space Research and Technology Center, ESTEC, Noordwijk (Netherlands)

Description

The reliability of a theoretical model that solves the radiative transfer equation in dust clouds surrounding a central star is checked. In particular, it is found that both classical scattering by dust and the back-heating effects are negligible in the radiative transfer when envelopes similar to IRC+10216 are taken into consideration. In addition, new fits of IRC+10216 spectra are presented which were obtained, when the source is in different luminosity phases, under the assumption that amorphous carbon grains are in the circumstellar envelope. The same model is currently used to simulate the emission from carbon-rich sources showing the silicon carbide feature at 11.3 microns

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Interstellar dust; Contributed papers
Imprint Pagination
512 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 505-506.
Report number
N--91-14897

Conference

Title
Interstellar dust symposium.
Dates
26-30 Jul 1988.
Place
Santa Clara, CA (USA).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
22062161
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference, Numerical Data
Descriptors DEI
CARBON; CARBON STARS; COSMIC DUST; COSMIC GASES; EMISSION SPECTRA; HEAT TRANSFER; INFRARED SPECTRA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SILICON CARBIDES; STAR MODELS; STELLAR ATMOSPHERES; THEORETICAL DATA; VARIABLE STARS
Descriptors DEC
ATMOSPHERES; CARBIDES; CARBON COMPOUNDS; DATA; DUSTS; ELEMENTS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUIDS; GASES; INFORMATION; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; NONMETALS; NUMERICAL DATA; SILICON COMPOUNDS; SPECTRA; STARS

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