The onset of mass loss in AGB stars
Abstract
The factors controlling strong mass loss from evolved stars remain elusive, frustrating efforts to parameterise mass loss in models of evolved stars. We herein describe evidence we have collected to show that the mass-loss rate of stars is controlled by stellar pulsations, and that we are close to providing improved prescriptions for mass-loss rates from many kinds of evolved stars.
- Publication:
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Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars: A Continuing Challenge through Cosmic Time
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2019IAUS..343..464M
- Keywords:
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- stars: mass loss;
- stars: AGB and post-AGB;
- stars: variables: other;
- circumstellar matter;
- stars: evolution;
- stars: late-type;
- stars: chromospheres;
- stars: magnetic fields;
- stars: Population II;
- stars: winds;
- outflows