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| Paper: |
Optically Visible Post-AGB and Post-RGB Stars in the Magellanic Clouds |
| Volume: |
497, Why Galaxies Care about AGB Stars III: A Closer Look in Space and Time |
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435 |
| Authors: |
Kamath, D.; Wood, P. R.; Van Winckel, H. |
| Abstract: |
We have performed an extensive low-resolution (R ≈ 1300) optical spectral survey with the AAOmega multi-fiber spectrograph mounted on the 3.9-m Anglo Australian telescope, resulting in a clean and complete census of well-characterised post-AGB objects with spectroscopically determined stellar parameters – Teff, log g, [Fe/H] and E(B–V) – spanning a wide range in luminosity in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The known distances to the Magellanic clouds enabled luminosity estimations for all the objects and led to one of the most important results of this survey: the serendipitous discovery of a group of new, low-luminosity, evolved, dusty post-RGB objects in both Clouds. In this paper, we present an overview of this survey and a few important results. |
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