Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-08-09
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
A&A accepted 18.07.2007
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20077760
{The selection of AGB C and M stars from NIR colours has been done in recent years using adjustable criteria that are in needs of standardization if one wants to compare, in a coherent manner, properties of various populations.} We intend to assess the NIR colour technique to identify C and M stars. We compare the NIR colours of several C stars previously identified from spectroscopy or narrow band techniques in WLM, IC 10 and NGC 6822. We demonstrate that very few M stars have $(J-K)_0 > 1.4$ but a non negligible number of C stars are bluer than this limit. Thus, counts of M and C stars based on such limit do not produce pure samples. C/M ratios determined from NIR colours must be regarded as underestimates mainly because the M numbers include many warm C stars and also K stars if no blue limit is considered.
Battinelli Paolo
Demers Serge
Mannucci Filippo
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