Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-11-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
2 pages, proceedings of "Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars II" Eds. Franz Kerschbaum, Thomas Lebzelter, and Bob Wing
Scientific paper
It is still an unresolved problem how much AGB stars can contribute to the overall gas and dust enrichment processes in the interstellar medium within galaxies. We start tackling this problem, by using our test case observational data from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), from which we obtain the global gas and dust budget. The photometric data from the LMC is obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope. We established an infrared colour classification scheme to select AGB stars, which are based on spectroscopically identified AGB stars. We further confirm a correlation between the Spitzer colour and mass-loss rate, which leads to a measurement of the total mass-loss rate from the entire AGB population in the LMC. Indeed, AGB stars are an important gas and dust source.
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