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Water Vapor in Carbon-rich AGB Stars from the Vaporization of Icy Orbiting Bodies
K. E. Saavik Ford, David A. Neufeld
We argue that the presence of water vapor in the circumstellar outflow of a carbon-rich AGB star is potentially a distinctive signature of extra-solar cometary systems. Detailed mo…
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Discovery of water vapor around IRC+10216 as evidence for comets orbiting another star
Gary J. Melnick, David A. Neufeld, K. E. Saavik Ford +2
Since 1995, astronomers have discovered planets with masses comparable to that of Jupiter (318 times Earth's mass) in orbit around approximately 60 stars. Although unseen directly,…