An infrared study of galactic OH/IR stars. II. The `GLMP sample' of red oxygen-rich AGB stars

Details An infrared study of galactic OH/IR stars. II. The `GLMP sample' of red oxygen-rich AGB stars An infrared study of galactic OH/IR stars. II. The `GLMP sample' of red oxygen-rich AGB stars

2005-08-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508113v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 9 figures, for associated finding charts see: http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/Ins/Per/Jimenez-Esteban/Thesis/Atlas/g

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053268

We present optical and near-infrared finding charts taken from the DSS and 2MASS surveys of 94 IRAS sources selected from the GLMP catalogue (Garc\'{\i}a-Lario 1992), and accurate astrometry (~0.2") for most of them. Selection criteria were very red IRAS colours representative for OH/IR stars with optically thick circumstellar shells and the presence of variability according to the IRAS variability index (VAR>50). The main photometric properties of the stars in this `GLMP sample' are presented, discussed and compared with the correspondent properties of the `Arecibo sample' of OH/IR stars studied in Jim\'enez-Esteban et al. (2005a). We find that 37% of the sample (N=34) have no counterpart in the 2MASS, implying extremely high optical depths of their shells. Most of the sources identified in the 2MASS are faint (K>~8) and of very red colour in the near-infrared, as expected. The brightest 2MASS counterpart (K=5.3mag) was found for IRAS 18299--1705. Its blue colour H--K=1.3 suggests that IRAS 8299--1705 is a post-AGB star. A couple of GLMP sources have faint but relatively blue counterparts. They might be misidentifed field stars or stars hich experienced recently a drop of their mass loss rates. The `GLMP sample' in general is made of oxygen-rich AGB stars, which are highly obscured by their circumstellar shells. They belong to the same population as the reddest OH/IR stars in the `Arecibo sample'.

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