What makes red giants?

Mass-loss from Red Giants

Although much is known about the nature of winds from hot stars and giants and supergiants with spectral types earlier than K, there is still much to be learned regarding the mass-loss process in cool, late-type stars. We will review the current state of research, with particular reference to observations and modelling of mass-loss from giant stars in symbiotic systems.

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

What Makes

Non - adiabatic Oscillations of Red Giants

Using our non-local time-dependent theory of convection, the linear non-adiabatic oscillations of 10 evolutionary model series with masses of 1–3M⊙ are calculated. The results show that there is a red giant instability strip in the lower temperature side of the Hertzsprung-Russel (HR) diagram which goes along the sequences of the red giant branch (RGB) and the asymptotic giant branch (AGB). For...

Oscillations of αUMa and other red giants

There is growing observational evidence that the variability of red giants could be caused by self-excitation of global modes of oscillation. The most recent evidence of such oscillations was reported for αUMa by Buzasi et al. (2000) who analysed space photometric data from the WIRE satellite. Little is understood about the oscillation properties in red giants. In this paper we address the ques...