Atmospheric molecular blobs shape up circumstellar envelopes of AGB stars.


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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

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Date de publication:
May 2023
Historique:
received: 06 05 2022
accepted: 02 03 2023
medline: 26 5 2023
pubmed: 18 5 2023
entrez: 17 5 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

During their thermally pulsing phase, asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars eject material that forms extended dusty envelopes

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pubmed: 37198489
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05917-9
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-05917-9
doi:

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Journal Article

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eng

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IM

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696-700

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© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

L Velilla-Prieto (L)

Department of Molecular Astrophysics, Instituto de Física Fundamental, Madrid, Spain. l.velilla@csic.es.

J P Fonfría (JP)

Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain.

M Agúndez (M)

Department of Molecular Astrophysics, Instituto de Física Fundamental, Madrid, Spain.

A Castro-Carrizo (A)

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique, Saint Martin d'Hères, France.

M Guélin (M)

Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique, Saint Martin d'Hères, France.

G Quintana-Lacaci (G)

Department of Molecular Astrophysics, Instituto de Física Fundamental, Madrid, Spain.

I Cherchneff (I)

Departement Physik, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

C Joblin (C)

Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université Toulouse 3 - Paul Sabatier, CNRS, CNES, Toulouse, France.

M C McCarthy (MC)

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA.

J A Martín-Gago (JA)

Group of Structure of Nanoscopic Systems, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Spain.

J Cernicharo (J)

Department of Molecular Astrophysics, Instituto de Física Fundamental, Madrid, Spain. jose.cernicharo@csic.es.

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