ORIGIN OF DUST AROUND V1309 SCO
ORIGIN OF DUST AROUND V1309 SCO
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DOI:
10.1088/0004-637x/777/1/23
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2013-08
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Chunhua Zhu;G. Lü;Zhaojun Wang
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Chunhua Zhu;G. Lü;Zhaojun Wang
The origin of dust grains in the interstellar medium is still an unanswered problem. Nicholls et al. found the presence of a significant amount of dust around V1309 Sco, which may originate from the merger of a contact binary. We investigate the origin of dust around V1309 Sco and suggest that these dust grains are produced in the binary-merger ejecta. By means of the AGBDUST code, we estimate that ∼5.2 × 10−4 M☉ dust grains are produced with a radii of ∼10−5 cm. These dust grains are mainly composed of silicate and iron grains. Because the mass of the binary merger ejecta is very small, the contribution of dust produced by binary merger ejecta to the overall dust production in the interstellar medium is negligible. However, it is important to note that the discovery of a significant amount of dust around V1309 Sco offers a direct support for the idea that common-envelope ejecta provides an ideal environment for dust formation and growth. Therefore, we confirm that common envelope ejecta can be important source of cosmic dust.