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Paper: |
Detached Shells of Dust and Gas around Carbon Stars |
Volume: |
445, Why Galaxies Care about AGB Stars II: Shining Examples and Common Inhabitants |
Page: |
345 |
Authors: |
Maercker, M.; Olofsson, H.; Eriksson, K.; Gustafsson, B.; Schöier, F. L. |
Abstract: |
We present observations of dust-scattered light of the carbon stars
U Ant, R Scl, and U Cam taken with the EFOSC2 camera on the ESO 3.6-m
telescope and the ACS on the Hubble Space Telescope. The
observations show the detached shells around these stars in
unprecedented detail, revealing a distinctively clumpy structure
in the HST images of R Scl, and a separation of the dust and gas
in the ground-based data for U Ant. This allows us to investigate
the detached shells and their origin with exceptional precision. |
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