Evolved stars: dust formation and mass loss
Abstract
Evolved stars drive the chemical enrichment of the Universe, acting as primary producers of elemental products of nucleosynthesis and cosmic dust. Unraveling the exact role played by these objects requires empirical constraints on the interplay between pulsation, convection, magnetic fields, mass loss, and dust formation at small (milliarcsecond) scales, currently limited to only a handful of sources. Next-generation facilities, particularly the new ALMA2040, will enable systematic, spatially resolved studies of mass loss and dust formation across large samples of evolved stars, expanding from a few tens to hundreds of objects and providing the empirical constraints needed to understand the recycling and chemical enrichment of baryonic matter throughout the Universe.
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BibTeX
@misc{velillaprieto2026evolved,
title = {{Evolved stars: dust formation and mass loss}},
author = {Luis Velilla-Prieto and Wouter Vlemmings and Guillermo Quintana-Lacaci and Javier Alcolea and Jaime Alonso-Hernández and Alain Baudry and Cristobal Bordiu and Taïssa Danilovich and Elvire de Beck and Leen Decin and Sandra Etoka and J. Pablo Fonfría and Tomasz Kaminski and Theo Khouri and Matthias Maercker and Bannawit Pimpanuwat and Raghvendra Sahai and Carmen Sánchez Contreras and Miguel Santander-García and Ramlal Unnikrishnan and Marie Van de Sande},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.21851},
eprint = {2610.21851},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21851},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Evolved stars: dust formation and mass loss
AU - Luis Velilla-Prieto
AU - Wouter Vlemmings
AU - Guillermo Quintana-Lacaci
AU - Javier Alcolea
AU - Jaime Alonso-Hernández
AU - Alain Baudry
AU - Cristobal Bordiu
AU - Taïssa Danilovich
AU - Elvire de Beck
AU - Leen Decin
AU - Sandra Etoka
AU - J. Pablo Fonfría
AU - Tomasz Kaminski
AU - Theo Khouri
AU - Matthias Maercker
AU - Bannawit Pimpanuwat
AU - Raghvendra Sahai
AU - Carmen Sánchez Contreras
AU - Miguel Santander-García
AU - Ramlal Unnikrishnan
AU - Marie Van de Sande
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/15
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.21851
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.21851
AB - Evolved stars drive the chemical enrichment of the Universe, acting as primary producers of elemental products of nucleosynthesis and cosmic dust. Unraveling the exact role played by these objects requires empirical constraints on the interplay between pulsation, convection, magnetic fields, mass loss, and dust formation at small (milliarcsecond) scales, currently limited to only a handful of sources. Next-generation facilities, particularly the new ALMA2040, will enable systematic, spatially resolved studies of mass loss and dust formation across large samples of evolved stars, expanding from a few tens to hundreds of objects and providing the empirical constraints needed to understand the recycling and chemical enrichment of baryonic matter throughout the Universe.
ER -