The late-type stellar content of Magellanic Cloud clusters

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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Galactic Clusters, Giant Stars, Late Stars, M Stars, Magellanic Clouds, Star Distribution, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Abundance, Carbon Stars, Infrared Spectrophotometers, Spectral Energy Distribution, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Luminosity, Visible Spectrum

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Visual spectrophotometry and new broad-band photometric data obtained for 48 late-type giants in clusters in the MC are combined with published data to predict various evolutionary schemes for cool, luminous, carbon and oxygen rich stars. The MC cluster C stars have a range in spectral energy distributions quite similar to that of MC field C stars, and the LMC field contains M giants, which are redder and more luminous than any so far found in LMC or SMC clusters. This is attributed to the presence in the LMC field of a significant population of stars that are younger and/or more metal rich than the stars in the cluster sample. The locations of the NGC 1841 stars in a C-M diagram appear to be anomalous in the sense that its brightest stars have luminosities greater than the tips of giant branches of metal poor galactic globular clusters.

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