AAS 201st Meeting, January, 2003
Session 17. Stellar Evolution and Metal-Poor Stars
Poster, Monday, January 6, 2003, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall AB

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[17.04] Interferometric Investigations of Highly Evolved Stars

S. Ragland, W. Traub, M. Lacasse (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J. Monnier (University of Michigan), R. Millan-Gabet (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), P. Schloerb (University of Massachusetts), J-P. Berger (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Grenoble), E. Pedretti, N. Carleton (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

A program of studying evolved stars from closure-phase measurements in the near-infrared is underway at the IOTA interferometer. Several cool stars have been observed in the H band with the three-telescope configuration of the IOTA. Angular diameters of these targets have been measured for the first time in the H band. The preliminary results from our studies of a sample of about a dozen Mira stars are presented in this paper.

This work was performed in part under contract with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) through the Michelson Fellowship program funded by NASA as an element of the planet finder program.


The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: sragland@cfa.harvard.edu

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