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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Infrared spectra of evolved stars are generally dominated by the radiation from their circumstellar shells. M stars are characterized by the 10 μm emission feature from silicate dust grains, while C stars by the 11 μm SiC band. However, some C stars have been found to show the 10 μm feature indicating the oxygen-rich property of their circumstellar dust (Willems and de Jong 1986, Little-Marenin 1986).
In order to investigate the gas phase chemistry of the circumstellar envelopes around these peculiar objects, we have observed radio molecular lines of H2O, SiO, HCN, and CO towards three of them BM Gem (C5, 4J), V778 Cyg (C4, 5J), and EU And (C4, 4).