The carbon star mystery: 40 years later
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Straniero, Oscar; Abia Ladrón De Guevara, Carlos Antonio; Domínguez Aguilera, María InmaculadaEditorial
Springer
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2023-02-06Referencia bibliográfica
Straniero, O., Abia, C. & Domínguez, I. The carbon star mystery: 40 years later. Eur. Phys. J. A 59, 17 (2023). [https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-023-00926-8]
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Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica within the CRUI-CARE Agreement; PGC2018-095317-B-C21 MCIN /AEI FEDER; PID2021-123110NBI00 financed by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, UEResumen
In 1981 Icko Iben Jr published a paper entitled
“The carbon star mystery: why do the lowmass ones become
such, and where have all the high mass ones gone?”, where
he discussed the discrepancy between the theoretical expectation
and its observational counterpart about the luminosity
function of AGB carbon stars. After more than 40 years,
our understanding of this longstanding problem is greatly
improved, also thanks to more refined stellar models and a
growing amount of observational constraints. In this paper
we review the state of the art of these studies and we briefly
illustrate the future perspectives.