Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-02-05
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 341 (2003) 1205
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in MNRAS (better quality figure 1 on request from jacco)
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06483.x
LI-LMC 1813 is a dust-enshrouded Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) star, located in the small open cluster KMHK 1603 near the rim of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Optical and infrared photometry between 0.5 and 60 micron is obtained to constrain the spectral energy distribution of LI-LMC 1813. Near-infrared spectra unambiguously show it to be a carbon star. Modelling with the radiation transfer code Dusty yields accurate values for the bolometric luminosity, L=1.5 x 10^4 Lsun, and mass-loss rate, Mdot=3.7(+/-1.2) x 10^-5 Msun/yr. On the basis of colour-magnitude diagrams, the age of the cluster KMHK 1603 is estimated to be t=0.9-1.0 Gyr, which implies a Zero-Age Main Sequence mass for LI-LMC 1813 of M(ZAMS)=2.2+/-0.1 Msun. This makes LI-LMC 1813 arguably the object with the most accurately and reliably determined (circum)stellar parameters amongst all carbon stars in the superwind phase.
Marshall Jonathan R.
Matsuura Mikako
van Loon Jacco Th.
Zijlstra Albert A.
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