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A.L obel SAO funding Spatially R RR Resolved STIS S SS Spectroscopy o oo of Betelgeuse’s U pper C CC Chromosphere and Circumstellar Dust Envelope
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Jan 1998 HST-FOC Near-UV Images Inner Chromosphere
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Apr 1998
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Sep 1998
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Mar 1999
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HST-STIS Near-UV spectroscopy Lobel & Dupree ApJ 2001
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1000 mas 600 mas 400 mas 200 mas 126 mas 63 mas Peak-up Mg II k Inner Chromosphere Upper Chromosphere 2002-2003
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Hinz et al. Nature 1998 4000 mas 1000 mas 500 mas HST-STIS near-UV spectra Upper chromosphere 2002-2003 Circumstellar Inner Dust Envelope MMT 9.8 m image 200 mas 400 mas 600 mas 0 mas 1000 mas 2000 mas 3000 mas
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Mg II k 0 mas 63 mas 126 mas 200 mas 400 mas 600 mas 1000 mas 2000 mas
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0 mas 25 mas 50 mas 75 mas 200 mas 400 mas 600 mas 1000 mas Si I 2516
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Log of integrated emission line intensity Mg II k Mg II h Fe I Fe II Al II C II
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IRAS ISO Dust emission Input model SED T eff = 3500 K log(g) = - 0.5 DUSTY model best fit SED 9.8 = 0.015 0.05 m < grain size < 0.5 m T dust = 600 K 0.05 m < grain size < 0.5 m T dust = 800 K 1 m < grain size < 5 m T dust = 600 K
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Observed Radial Dust Intensity 9.8 m DUSTY Model Intensity 9.8 m MMT MIRAC Model I 12.5 m 18 m
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Model Circumstellar Dust Envelope Model Inner Chromosphere Model Upper Chromosphere
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Conclusions on Betelgeuse Emission lines of upper chromosphere observed far inside inner dust envelope to 3 arcseconds or ~120 R * First evidence of outward accelerating upper chromospheric wind from increasing emission line asymmetry Emission lines of upper chromosphere form at kinetic gas temperatures Tgas > 2600 K far inside inner Circumstellar Dust Envelope Ambient gas temperature in the CDE Tgas < 600 K required for dust formation Warm chromospheric gas and cool dusty gas co- exist far beyond dust condensation radius of dust- driven wind models
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New observations require wind driving physics sustaining warm and cool gas in upper chromosphere Evidence for shock wave propagation in the upper chromosphere? Outflow caused by radiation pressure onto dust at the inner chromosphere, or initiated by acoustic energy propagation from the photosphere? Where do we go from here?
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