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An empirical formula for the mass-loss rates of dust-enshrouded red supergiants and oxygen-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch stars
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We present an empirical determination of the mass-loss rate as a function of stellar luminosity and effective temperature, for oxygen-rich dust-enshrouded Asymptotic Giant Branch stars and red supergiants. To this aim we obtained optical spectra of a sample of dust-enshrouded red giants in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which we complemented with spectroscopic and infrared photometric data from the literature. Two of these turned out to be hot emission-line stars, of which one is a definite B[e] star. The mass-loss rates were measured through modelling of the spectral energy distributions. We thus obtain the mass-loss rate formula , valid for dust-enshrouded red supergiants and oxygen-rich AGB stars. Despite the low metallicity of the LMC, both AGB stars and red supergiants are found at late spectral types. A comparison with galactic AGB stars and red supergiants shows excellent agreement between the mass-loss rate as predicted by our formula and that derived from the 60 μm flux density for dust-enshrouded objects, but not for optically bright objects. We discuss the possible implications of this for the mass-loss mechanism.
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- Authors
- van Loon, J. T., L. Cioni, M.-R., Zijlstra, A. A., & Loup, C.
- Venue
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Publisher
- EDP Sciences
- Published
- 2005-07
- Volume
- 438
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 273-289
- ISSN
- 0004-6361 (ISSN-L)
- 1432-0746
- OpenAlex
- W2135737430
- Cited by
- 409
- References
- 34
- FWCI
- 9.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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