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It is very well known that symbiotic stars are displaying at the same time spectral characteristics of hot stars, cool stars (principally of M type), nebulae and circumstellar dust envelopes. The investigation of the near IR is particularly interesting because one finds there important features of these different objects.
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Y. Andrillat (1982) studied this question.
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