Far-infrared circumstellar debris shells: Clues to the evolution of massive stars?
1989 ◽
Vol 113
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pp. 293-294
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Abstract:A survey of the infrared properties of late-type supergiant stars, using the IRAS database, reveals that about 25% of the stars possess resolved, extended circumstellar shells. These shells are typically several arc minutes in apparent size and therefore on the scale of parsecs at the source. Furthermore, among the resolved sources, there is an inverse correlation between physical size of the infrared shell and B-V color, suggesting that these shells are formed while the objects are red supergiants, but continue to expand ballistically, while the star evolves blueward from that extreme. These shells may be the material swept up into ring nebulae when the central star develops a fast wind.
1993 ◽
Vol 155
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pp. 139-145
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2000 ◽
Vol 177
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pp. 425-432
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2008 ◽
Vol 366
(1884)
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pp. 4441-4452
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1989 ◽
Vol 131
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pp. 411-424
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1980 ◽
Vol 50
(3_suppl)
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pp. 1127-1138
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