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NIR Survey of Variable Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Pulsation at the tip of the first giant branch?

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Mass-Losing Pulsating Stars and their Circumstellar Matter

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ((ASSL,volume 283))

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The preliminary results of our ongoing NIR survey of the variable red giants in the Large Magellanic Cloud are presented. In the observed color-magnitude diagram (J — K s , K s ) and the stellar K s magnitude distribution, the tip of the first giant branch (TRGB, Ks 12.3 Nikolaev & Weinberg 2000) is clearly seen. Apart from the genuine AGB variables, we found many variable stars that populate just below the TRGB. From this result, we infer that most, if not all, of them are RGB variables

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  1. Institute of Astronomy, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181-0015, Japan

    Yoshifusa Ita, T. Tanabé, Y. Nakada & N. Matsunaga

  2. Department of Astrophysics, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan

    Y. Nakajima, C. Nagashima, T. Nagayama, D. Kato & T. Nagata

  3. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo, 181-8588, Japan

    M. Tamura

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  1. Yoshifusa Ita
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  1. Kiso Observatory, University of Tokyo, Agematsu, Japan

    Y. Nakada

  2. National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Japan

    M. Honma

  3. Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    M. Seki

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Ita, Y. et al. (2003). NIR Survey of Variable Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. In: Nakada, Y., Honma, M., Seki, M. (eds) Mass-Losing Pulsating Stars and their Circumstellar Matter. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 283. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0139-7_42

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