Dust and Molecules in Evolved Stars: Proceedings of an International Workshop held at UMIST, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2427 March, 1997 [Hardcover]

Dust and molecules are found in a large variety of astrophysical environments, in particular in the circumstellar material ejected by evolved stars. This book brings together the leading astronomers and astrophysicists in the field of molecular astrophysics and stellar physics to discuss the important issues of dust and molecular formation, the role of solids in circumstellar environments, molecules as probes of circumstellar parameters, the stellar contribution to the enrichment of the Galaxy, and the latest observational data in various wavelength domains, in partiular in the infrared with results from the Infrared Space Observatory. The astrophysical senarios include late-type stars, novae, Wolf-Rayet stars, Luminous Blue Variables and supernovae.
Audience: Researchers and graduate students in the fields of stellar physics, stellar evolution and astrochemistry.LowMass Stars.- Circumstellar PAHS and Carbon Stardust (R).- ISO LWS Observations of Evolved Stars and Nebulae (R).- ISO-SWS Spectra of AGB Stars (C).- Molecules in Envelopes around AGB-Stars (R).- Shocks in the Radio Photospheres of Long Period Variable Stars (C).- Silicon and Sulphur in the Inner Envelope of IRO+10216 (C).- Maser Mapping and Dust Properties of Red Supergiant Winds (C).- Chemical Evolution from the AGB to the Planetary Nebula Phase (R).- Circumstellar Molecular Spectra Towards Evolved Stars (C).- Disks around Post-Main Sequence Binaries (R).- Dust Shells around Carbon Mira Variables (C).- Variability of Circumstellar Emission from Dust Envelopes around Carbon Stars (C).- Circumstellar Dust Condensation Scenarios (R).- UIR Bands in Carbon Star Spectra (C).- Non-Spherical Dust Grains in the Envelopes of Late-Type Giants (C).- Modeling the Long-Term Evolution of Dusty Outflows of AGB-Stars (R).- Observations of Shells Around ? CEP & CRL2688, and about Episodic Mass Loss (C).- IR-Colors for Models of Post-AGB Evolution (C).- Variation of Silicl‚