Synthetic Spectra of Long-Period Variables: A First Comparison with ISO Observations

Aringer, Bernhard; Loidl, Rita; Hron, Josef; Höfner, Susanne; ørgensen, Uffe G.; Kerschbaum, Franz

Austria, Denmark

Abstract

Exploratory synthetic spectra were computed for carbon-rich long-period variables. We used dynamic model atmospheres of Höfner & Dorfi (1997) and calculated partial pressures, absorption- and scattering coefficients as input for the spectral synthesis code of Jørgensen et al. (1992). First ISO SWS-observations of the carbon-Mira T Dra are compared with our synthetic spectra.

1997 Astrophysics and Space Science
ISO 5