Bibcode
Dell'Agli, F.
Bibliographical reference
Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, v.88, p.383 (2017)
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2017
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Description
The description of dust production by asymptotic giant branch stars
(AGB) is matter of interest for a wide part of the astronomical
community. In the light of this, the number of studies focused on this
topic rapidly increased in the last decade. Latest releases of
hydrodynamical models provide a deep insight of wind structure and mass
loss process. On the other hand new generations of models able to couple
a detailed description of the AGB evolution with a dust growth model
allow the estimation of the amount of dust formed in the winds of these
stars, with a special look at its dependence on AGB evolution
properties. Nevertheless, several uncertainties connected with the AGB
modelling still affect the global description of dust condensation
process. In this contribution we discuss latest progresses, possible
constrains and upcoming improvements expected on this side.