Mass Loss from Stars and the Evolution of Stellar Clusters
Book subtitle
proceedings of a workshop held at Lunteren, the Netherlands, 29 May-1 June 2006
ISBN
9781583816448
ISBN (electronic)
9781583816455
Series
Astronomical Society of the Pacific conference series
Event
Mass loss from stars and the evolution of stellar clusters, Lunteren, the Netherlands
Pages (from-to)
161-162
Publisher
San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Organisations
Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
It is generally acknowledged that the mass loss of Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars undergoes variations on different time scales. We address here the question of the influence of these variations on the spectral energy distribution (SED) of these sources. We therefore constructed models for the dust envelopes for a sample of AGB stars. From the analysis of these dust models, two indications for the presence of mass-loss variations can be found.