Understanding the Elusive Dwarf Carbon Star
| dc.creator | Green, Paul J. | |
| dc.date | 1996-08-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:21:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:21:41Z | |
| dc.description | Most stars in our Galaxy with photospheric C/O>1 (carbon stars) are not giants but dwarfs. The newly-recognized class of dwarf carbon (dC) stars joins the growing family of stars with peculiar abundances that are now recognized as products of mass-transfer binary (MTB) evolution. The dozen examples now known span a wide range of evolutionary histories, ages, and abundances. These stars can already provide some much-needed constraints on the formation of AGB C stars in the disk and spheroid populations, and on the parameters characterizing binary evolution there. A larger sample of dCs, with some bright members, would hasten our progress. | |
| dc.description | 8 pages, Invited Talk in IAU Symposium 177: The Carbon Star Phenomenon, ed. R. F. Wing (Kluwer, in press) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9608003 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9608003 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/10597 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Understanding the Elusive Dwarf Carbon Star | |
| dc.type | text |