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Evolved Stars: Interferometer Baby Food or Staple Diet?

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The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Recent Scientific Results and 2nd Generation Instrumentation

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With their extreme red and infrared luminosities and large apparent diameters, evolved stars have nurtured generations of interferometers (beginning with Michelson’s work on Betelgeuse) with unique science programs at attainable resolutions. Furthermore, the inflated photosphere and circumstellar material associated with dying stars presents complex targets with asymmetric structure on many scales encoding a wealth of poorly-understood astrophysics. A brief review the major past milestones and future prospects for interferometry’s contribution to studies of circumstellar matter in evolved stars is presented.

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  1. School of Physics, Sydney University, NSW 2006, Australia

    Peter Tuthill

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  1. European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany

    A. Richichi

  2. European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany

    F. Delplancke

  3. IASF Bologna, Area Ricerca di Bologna Via Piero Gobetti, Bologna 40129, Italy

    F. Paresce

  4. Observatoire de Grenoble, Lab. d’Astrophysique, Grenoble CX 38041, France

    A. Chelli

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Tuthill, P. (2007). Evolved Stars: Interferometer Baby Food or Staple Diet?. In: Richichi, A., Delplancke, F., Paresce, F., Chelli, A. (eds) The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Recent Scientific Results and 2nd Generation Instrumentation. Eso Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74256-2_14

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