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The Last Gasps of a Dying Star: ALMA Observations of the Pre-Planetary Nebula IRAS 06530-0213
Raghvendra Sahai, Wouter Vlemmings, Guillermo Quintana-Lacaci +16
We present high angular-resolution () ALMA observations of millimeter-wave line and continuum emission (at and mm) in the pre-planetary ne…
Registration of HO and SiO masers in the Calabash Nebula, to confirm the Planetary Nebula paradigm
Richard Dodson, Maria Rioja, Valentin Bujarrabal +4
We report on the astrometric registration of VLBI images of the SiO and water masers in OH231.8+4.2, the iconic Proto-Planetary Nebula also known as the Calabash nebula, using the…
Herschel/HIFI observations of the circumstellar ammonia lines in IRC+10216
M. R. Schmidt, J. H. He, R. Szczerba +14
New high-resolution far-infrared (FIR) observations of both ortho- and para-NH3 transitions toward IRC+10216 were obtained with Herschel, with the goal of determining the ammonia a…
SiO masers from AGB stars in the vibrationally excited v=1,v=2, and v=3 states
J. -F. Desmurs, V. Bujarrabal, M. Lindqvist +3
The v=1 and v=2 J=1-0 (43 GHz), and v=1 J=2-1 (86 GHz) SiO masers are intense in AGB stars and have been mapped using VLBI showing ring-like distributions. Those of the v=1, v=2 J=…
The wind of W Hya as seen by Herschel - I. The CO envelope
T. Khouri, A. de Koter, L. Decin +25
Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars lose their envelopes by means of a stellar wind whose driving mechanism is not understood well. Characterizing the composition and thermal and d…
HIFISTARS Herschel/HIFI observations of VY Canis Majoris. Molecular-line inventory of the envelope around the largest known star
J. Alcolea, V. Bujarrabal, P. Planesas +16
To gain insight into the physical conditions and kinematics of the warm (100-1000 K) gas around the red hyper-giant VY CMa, we performed sensitive high spectral resolution observat…
Herschel/HIFI observations of O-rich AGB stars : molecular inventory
K. Justtanont, T. Khouri, M. Maercker +15
Spectra, taken with the heterodyne instrument, HIFI, aboard the Herschel Space Observatory, of O-rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars which form part of the guaranteed time key…
Herschel/HIFI observations of molecular emission in protoplanetary nebulae and young planetary nebulae
V. Bujarrabal, J. Alcolea, R. Soria-Ruiz +1
We performed Herschel/HIFI observations of intermediate-excitation molecular lines in the far-infrared/submillimeter range in a sample of ten protoplanetary nebulae and young plane…
Herschel/HIFI deepens the circumstellar NH3 enigma
K. M. Menten, F. Wyrowski, J. Alcolea +23
Circumstellar envelopes (CSEs) of a variety of evolved stars have been found to contain ammonia (NH3) in amounts that exceed predictions from conventional chemical models by many o…
Herschel/HIFI observations of high-J CO transitions in the protoplanetary nebula CRL618
V. Bujarrabal, J. Alcolea, R. Soria-Ruiz +25
We performed Herschel/HIFI observations of several CO lines in the far-infrared/sub-mm in the protoplanetary nebula CRL618. The high spectral resolution provided by HIFI allows mea…
A HIFI preview of warm molecular gas around chi Cyg : first detection of H2O emission toward an S-type AGB star
K. Justtanont, L. Decin, F. L. Schoier +24
A set of new, sensitive, and spectrally resolved, sub-millimeter line observations are used to probe the warm circumstellar gas around the S-type AGB star chi Cyg. The observed lin…
Discovery of water vapour in the carbon star V Cygni from observations with Herschel/HIFI
D. A. Neufeld, E. González-Alfonso, G. Melnick +25
We report the discovery of water vapour toward the carbon star V Cygni. We have used Herschel's HIFI instrument, in dual beam switch mode, to observe the 1(11) - 0(00) para-water t…
Water content and wind acceleration in the envelope around the oxygen-rich AGB star IK Tau as seen by Herschel/HIFI
L. Decin, K. Justtanont, E. De Beck +4
During their asymptotic giant branch, evolution low-mass stars lose a significant fraction of their mass through an intense wind, enriching the interstellar medium with products of…
Circumstellar masers in the Magellanic Clouds
Jacco Th. van Loon, Albert A. Zijlstra, Valentin Bujarrabal +1
We have searched for 22 GHz H2O and 43/86/129 GHz SiO masers in bright IRAS point sources in the SMC and LMC, to test whether the kinematics of the mass loss from these stars depen…
Discovery of the first extra-galactic SiO maser
Jacco Th. van Loon, Albert A. Zijlstra, Valentin Bujarrabal +1
We report on the detection of SiO J=2--1 v=1 (86 GHz) maser emission from the red supergiant IRAS04553--6825 in the LMC. It has thereby become the first known source of SiO maser e…
Shell Masers
Moshe Elitzur, V. Bujarrabal
We present the analytical solution of a maser shaped like a spherical shell. We determine the general condition on the size of the central cavity at which a sphere becomes a shell…