The growing importance of optical interferometry for the study of evolved stars

✍ Scribed by Olivier Chesneau

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 239 KB
• Volume: 53
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1387-6473
• DOI: 10.1016/j.newar.2010.07.003

✦ Synopsis

This is a short review of optical interferometry studies involving the VLTI in the field of evolved stars. The various aspects of mass loss from these stars can be followed from the photosphere to the wind, and then to the circumstellar medium. Of particular importance is the possibility offered by this technique to characterize disks of dust or plasma.