@Article{Decin_etal2010,
author="Decin, L.
and Justtanont, K.
and De Beck, E.
and Lombaert, R.
and de Koter, A.
and Waters, L. B. F. M.
and Marston, A. P.
and Teyssier, D.
and Sch{\"o}ier, F. L.
and Bujarrabal, V.
and Alcolea, J.
and Cernicharo, J.
and Dominik, C.
and Melnick, G.
and Menten, K.
and Neufeld, D. A.
and Olofsson, H.
and Planesas, P.
and Schmidt, M.
and Szczerba, R.
and de Graauw, T.
and Helmich, F.
and Roelfsema, P.
and Dieleman, P.
and Morris, P.
and Gallego, J. D.
and D{\'i}ez-Gonz{\'a}lez, M. C.
and Caux, E.",
title="Water content and wind acceleration in the envelope around the oxygen-rich AGB star IK Tauri as seen by Herschel/HIFI",
journal="Astron. Astrophys.",
year="2010",
volume="521",
pages="L4",
optkeywords="HEB mixer applications; HIFI; Herschel; line: profiles / radiative transfer / instrumentation: spectrographs / stars: AGB and post-AGB / circumstellar matter / submillimeter: stars",
abstract="During their asymptotic giant branch evolution, low-mass stars lose a significant fraction of their mass through an intense wind, enriching the interstellar medium with products of nucleosynthesis. We observed the nearby oxygen-rich asymptotic giant branch star IK Tau using the high-resolution HIFI spectrometer onboard Herschel. We report on the first detection of H216O and the rarer isotopologues H217O and H218O in both the ortho and para states. We deduce a total water content (relative to molecular hydrogen) of {\$}6.6 {\backslash}times 10^{\{}-5{\}}{\$}, and an ortho-to-para ratio of 3:1. These results are consistent with the formation of H2O in thermodynamical chemical equilibrium at photospheric temperatures, and does not require pulsationally induced non-equilibrium chemistry, vaporization of icy bodies or grain surface reactions. High-excitation lines of 12CO, 13CO, 28SiO, 29SiO, 30SiO, HCN, and SO have also been detected. From the observed line widths, the acceleration region in the inner wind zone can be characterized, and we show that the wind acceleration is slower than hitherto anticipated.",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=1090), last updated on Fri, 12 Feb 2021 01:14:24 -0600",
doi="10.1051/0004-6361/201015069",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015069"
}