Imaging the circumstellar envelopes of AGB stars

2006150 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

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N. Mauron · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Aims.We report the results of an exploratory program to image the extended circumstellar envelopes of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in dust-scattered galactic light. The goal is to characterize the morphology of the envelopes as a probe of the mass-loss process.

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Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

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Published in: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volume 452, Issue 1, pp. 257-268

DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20054739

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Imaging the circumstellar envelopes of AGB stars

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