{ "id": "1809.10293", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-09-26T03:15:01.000Z", "updated": "2018-09-26T03:15:01.000Z", "title": "Are the silicate crystallinities of oxygen-rich evolved stars related to their mass loss rates?", "authors": [ "Biwei Jiang", "Jiaming Liu", "Aigen Li" ], "comment": "2 pages,1 figure; To appear in IAU Symp. 343 \"Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars: A Continuing Challenge through Cosmic Time\" (Vienna, Austria; August 20 - 23, 2018)", "categories": [ "astro-ph.SR" ], "abstract": "A sample of 28 oxygen-rich evolved stars is selected based on the presence of crystalline silicate emission features in their ISO/SWS spectra. The crystallinity, measured as the flux fraction of crystalline silicate features, is found not related to mass loss rate that is derived from fitting the spectral energy distribution.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-09-26T03:15:01.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "mass loss rate", "oxygen-rich evolved stars", "silicate crystallinities", "crystallinity", "crystalline silicate emission features" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 2, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }