The adventure of carbon stars - Observations and modeling of a set of C-rich AGB stars G. Rau, J. Hron, C. Paladini, B. Aringer, K. Eriksson, P. Marigo, W. Nowotny and R. Grellmann A&A, 600 (2017) A92 Published online: 06 April 2017 DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629337