The AGB superwind speed at low metallicity

Abstract

We present the results of a survey for OH maser emission at 1612 MHz from dust-enshrouded AGB stars and supergiants in the LMC and SMC, with the Parkes radio telescope, aimed at deriving the speed of the superwind from the double-peaked OH maser profiles. Out of 8 targets in the LMC we detected 5, of which 3 are new detections - no maser emission was detected in the two SMC targets. We detected for the first time the redshifted components of the OH maser profile in the extreme red supergiant IRAS 04553-6825, confirming the suspicion that its wind speed had been severely underestimated. Despite a much improved spectrum for IRAS 04407-7000, which was known to exhibit a single-peaked OH maser, no complementary peak could be detected. The new detection in IRAS 05003-6712 was also single-peaked, but for two other new detections, IRAS 04498-6842 and IRAS 05558-7000, wind speeds could be determined from their double-peaked maser profiles. The complete sample of known OH/IR stars in the LMC is compared with a sample of OH/IR stars in the galactic centre. The LMC sources generally show a pronounced asymmetry between the bright blueshifted maser emission and weaker redshifted emission, which we attribute to the greater contribution of amplification of radiation coming directly from the star itself as the LMC sources are both more luminous and less dusty than their galactic centre counterparts. We confirm that the OH maser strength is a measure of the dust (rather than gas) mass-loss rate. At a given luminosity or pulsation period, the wind speed in LMC sources is lower than in galactic centre sources, and the observed trends confirm simple radiation-driven wind theory if the dust-to-gas ratio is approximately proportional to the metallicity.

13 pages, 18 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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