GAIA: AGB stars as tracers of star formation histories in the Galaxy and beyond

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2003-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303511v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 1 figure, to be appear in 'Mass-Losing Pulsating Stars and their Circumstellar Matter', eds. Y. Nakada, M. Honma & M.

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We discuss the tracing of star formation histories with ESA's space astrometry mission GAIA, emphasizing the advantages of AGB stars for this purpose. GAIA's microarcsecond-level astrometry, multi-band photometry and spectroscopy will provide individual distances, motions, effective temperatures, gravities and metallicities for vast numbers of AGB stars in the Galaxy and beyond. Reliable ages of AGB stars can be determined to distances of \~200 kpc in a wide range of ages and metallicities, allowing star formation histories to be studied in a diversity of astrophysical environments.

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