Pulsation at the tip of the first giant branch?

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2002-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210498v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 337 (2002) L31

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.06109.x

The first results of our ongoing near-infrared (NIR) survey of the variable red giants in the Large Magellanic Cloud, using the Infrared Survey Facility (IRSF) and the SIRIUS infrared camera, are presented. Many very red stars were detected and found that most of them are variables. In the observed colour-magnitude diagram ($J-K, K$) and the stellar $K$ magnitude distribution, the tip of the first giant branch (TRGB), where helium burning in the core starts, is clearly seen. Apart from the genuine AGB variables, we found many variable stars at luminosities around the TRGB. From this result, we infer that a substantial fraction of them are RGB variables.

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