Why Galaxies Care about AGB Stars : Their Importance As Actors and Probes: Proceedings of an International Conference Held at University Campus, Vienna, Austria, 7-11 August, 2006

by Kerschbaum, Franz; Charbonnel, Corinne; Wing, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781583813188
• ISBN10: 1583813187
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-30
• Publisher: Astronomical Society of the pacific

Table of Contents

Nucleosynthesis, Mixing, Abundances
Some Musings on AGB Star Models	p. 3
The Chemical Imprint of Super-AGB Stars	p. 9
Towards Simulating the Photometry, Chemistry, Mass Loss and Pulsational Properties of AGB Star Populations in Resolved Galaxies	p. 20
Nuclear Processes in AGB Stars	p. 26
Light s-Process Element Production in Solar Metallicity AGB Stars	p. 37
Convective and Non-Convective Mixing in AGB Stars	p. 43
The Impacts of Rotation on Nucleosynthesis in Metal-Poor AGB Stars	p. 54
Towards a Satisfactory Understanding of AGB-Star Atmospheres?	p. 60
Laboratory Data for Cool Star Modelling	p. 71
Spitzer/IRAC Characterization of Galactic AGB Stars	p. 80
The Period-Luminosity Relation of Mira Variables in NGC 6388 and NGC 6441	p. 86
Recognition and Classification of AGB Stars by Narrow-Band TiO/CN Photometry	p. 92
AGB and Post-AGB Stellar Evolution: Theoretical Models for Synthetic Population Studies	p. 99
AGB Stars in Globular Clusters	p. 105
Determination of Element Abundances	p. 111
Constraints on AGB Models from s-Process Nucleosynthesis	p. 119
Galactic Sodium from AGB Stars	p. 121
Peculiarities of the Chemical Composition of the Optical Component of Cyg X-1	p. 123
Astrophysical S-factor of the [superscript 15]N(p, [alpha])[superscript 12]C Reaction at sub-Coulomb Energies via the Trojan-Horse Method	p. 125
Water Opacity in M Stars	p. 127
CS 30322-023: An Ultra Metal-Poor TP-AGB Star?	p. 129
On the Surface Temperature-Gravity-Mass Relation of H-Deficient Post-AGB Tracks	p. 131
Post-He-Burning Phases and Final Fate of Super-AGB Stars	p. 133
Does Simultaneous Solution Matter for Stellar Evolution Codes?	p. 135
Internal Gravity Waves in AGB Stars	p. 137
Technetium in Galactic Bulge AGB Stars	p. 139
The Chemical Composition of R Stars	p. 141
Mass Loss from AGB Stars
Headwind: Modelling Mass Loss of AGB Stars, Against All Odds	p. 145
What Drives the Mass Loss of Oxygen-Rich AGB Stars?	p. 156
The Dust Sequence along the AGB	p. 164
Dust from AGB Stars	p. 170
Molecular Clusters in Dust Nucleation Processes in Circumstellar Outflows of Oxygen-Rich AGB Stars	p. 181
Observations of Water-Ice in OH/IR Stars	p. 187
The VLTI - Present and Future Prospects	p. 193
Mapping [superscript 12]CO J = 2-1 and 1-0 Line Emission in CSEs around AGB and Early Post-AGB Stars	p. 199
Sub-mm CO Line Observation and Modelling of Circumstellar Shells	p. 205
What Do We Really Know about Mass Loss on the AGB?	p. 211
Methods for Determining AGB Mass-Loss Rates Based on Radio Data	p. 216
On Determining the Mass-Loss Rates of Red Giants and Red Supergiants Based on Infrared Data	p. 227
On the Connection between Mass Loss and Evolution of C-rich AGB Stars	p. 239
On the Luminosity and Mass Loss of Galactic AGB Stars	p. 245
Quantitative Results on AGB Mass-Loss Rates	p. 251
Polychromatic Interferometry of Mira Variables	p. 262
Estimation of the Dust Mass-Loss Rates from AGB Stars in the Fornax and Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies	p. 268
The Rapidly Evolving Mira Variable LX Cygni	p. 275
A New Approach to Numerical Modelling of Circumstellar Dust Shells around Pulsating AGB Stars	p. 277
Far-Infrared Diagnostic Features of Forsterite Crystal	p. 279
Mythbusting the Carbon Star Dust Condensation Sequence	p. 281
Optical and Infrared Properties of a Sample of Carbon Stars	p. 283
Probing the Mass-Loss History of VY CMa	p. 285
An IDL Code for Automatically Modelling Infrared Circumstellar Emission of Dust	p. 287
High-Resolution Near-Infrared Speckle Interferometry and Radiative Transfer Modeling of the OH/IR, Star OH 26.5+0.6	p. 289
Mid-Infrared Long-Baseline Interferometry of the Symbiotic Mira Star RX Pup with the VLTI/MIDI Instrument	p. 291
Statistical Properties of Galactic Carbon Stars Based on 2MASS	p. 293
Properties of the Circumstellar Envelope of the Dual Chemistry Post-AGB Star Roberts 22	p. 295
OH 26.5+0.6: Insight into an Extreme OH/IR Star	p. 297
AGB Circumstellar Environments Probed through 21-cm Atomic Hydrogen Emission	p. 299
Nova 1670 Vul	p. 301
A Long-Term Study of Pulsational Light Variability in Post-AGB Stars	p. 303
Detection of an 0.1 pc Dust Shell of the Carbon Star U Hydrae in Optical Light	p. 305
Near-IR/Optical Monitoring Program of the Arecibo Sample of OH/IR Stars	p. 307
Observations of the AGB Star IRC+10216 from Milliarcsec to Arcmin Spatial Scales	p. 309
Some of What 1612 MHz Masers Tell Us about the dM/dt of OH/IR Stars	p. 311
Spectral Variations in Fading Episodes of Carbon Stars	p. 313
Modelling Dead OH/IR stars	p. 315
Modelling of Circumstellar H[subscript 2]O Line Emission from M-type AGB Stars	p. 317
VLA Observations of Hi in the Circumstellar Envelopes of AGB Stars	p. 319
Near-Infrared Speckle Imaging and AO Polarimetry of the Bipolar Proto-Planetary Nebula Frosty Leo	p. 321
Crystallization Experiments of Amorphous Silicates with the CI Chondritic Composition	p. 323
Tracing AGB Mass Loss by (Synthetic) High-Resolution IR Spectroscopy	p. 325
VLTI/MIDI Observation of the Silicate Carbon Star IRAS 08002-3803: Dusty Environment Spatially Resolved for the First Time	p. 327
Evolution of Planetary Nebulae in the Mid-Infrared	p. 329
Challenging the Identification of Nitride Dust in Extreme Carbon Star Spectra	p. 331
SiO around the Carbon Star IRAS 06238+0904	p. 333
The Physics and Chemistry of Circumstellar Envelopes of S Stars on the AGB	p. 335
Magnetic Fields in Post-AGB Stars	p. 337
The Circumstellar Shell of the Post-AGB Star IRAS 22272+5435	p. 339
Non-Equilibrium Chemistry and Dust Formation in AGB Stars as Probed by SiO Line Emission	p. 341
On the Mass-Loss History at the Tip of the AGB	p. 343
Circumstellar Envelopes as AGB Mass-Loss Signatures	p. 345
Mass Loss of AGB Stars: Low Metallicity Models	p. 347
Bispectrum Speckle Interferometry and Imaging Polarimetry of the Carbon Star IRC+10216: the Dynamic Evolution of the Innermost Circumstellar Environment from 1995 to 2005	p. 349
AGB Stars and Galactic Evolution
AGB Stars and the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies	p. 353
Yields from AGB Stars and their Impact on the Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies	p. 364
AGB Stars and Starbursts	p. 370
Star Formation Histories As Probed By AGB Stars	p. 375
Star Formation History across the Magellanic Clouds and Other Local Group Galaxies	p. 386
Population Synthesis Models including AGB Stars and their Ingredients	p. 392
Stellar Populations in the Galactic Bulge	p. 404
Carbon Stars in the Bulge - or Beyond It?	p. 410
Did AGB Stars Leave Their Chemical Fingerprints in Galactic Globular Clusters?	p. 416
A Spitzer/IRAC Census of the Asymptotic Giant Branch Populations in the Local Group Dwarf WLM	p. 427
AGB Stars in Extragalactic Systems	p. 433
AGB Stars in Early-Type Dwarf Galaxies in the Centaurus A Group	p. 445
Infrared Molecular Bands of Carbon-Rich Stars in Nearby Galaxies	p. 450
Planetary Nebulae as Probes of the Chemical Impact of AGB Stars	p. 456
An Evolving Catalogue of Post-AGB and Related Objects	p. 465
The Singular Contribution of AGB Stars to our Understanding of Galactic Dynamics	p. 469
C- and O-Rich Miras and Galactic Structure	p. 479
The Impact of LSST on Asymptotic Giant Branch Star Research	p. 485
Oxygen Gradients in the Galactic Disk from Planetary Nebulae: Evidence of Radial Flows?	p. 491
SRVs in the Solar Neighborhood	p. 493
AKARI (ASTRO-F) Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud	p. 495
Using LPVs as Tracers of Stellar Populations - Using the Fuel Consumption Theorem	p. 497
Contribution of Dust by AGB Stars during Galactic Evolution	p. 499
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