Low-mass evolved stars through the eyes of ALMA

  • Kim, Hyosun (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
  • Published : 2014.10.13

Abstract

Stars create and expel new chemical elements and dust at the end of the stellar life cycle. Therefore, understanding the evolved stars, their mass loss process, and the conditions of the returning material to be mixed with the surrounding interstellar medium is an important step toward studies on the new generation of stars as well as the evolution of cosmic elements in galactic scale. I will review the first results from the ALMA Early Science on the evolved stars and direct future works.

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