@misc{10481/80596,
year = {2023},
month = {2},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/80596},
abstract = {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.},
organization = {Istituto
Nazionale di Astrofisica within the CRUI-CARE Agreement},
organization = {PGC2018-095317-B-C21 MCIN /AEI FEDER},
organization = {PID2021-123110NBI00
financed by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, UE},
publisher = {Springer},
title = {The carbon star mystery: 40 years later},
doi = {10.1140/epja/s10050-023-00926-8},
author = {Straniero, Oscar and Abia Ladrón De Guevara, Carlos Antonio and Domínguez Aguilera, María Inmaculada},
}