A census of AGB stars in the Milky Way and M31 subgroups of dwarf-spheroidal galaxies
- Author(s)
- Franz Kerschbaum, B. Heiling, Walter Nowotny-Schipper, C. Spindler, Hans Olofsson, H E Schwarz
- Abstract
From photometric observations out to the tidal radii of the galaxies, we were able to identify hundreds of new carbon stars, to derive mean absolute magnitudes i>, luminosity functions, and the spatial/radial distributions of the carbon stars in these galaxies. For each galaxy this new material will allow estimated of the tips of their RGBs to derive distance moduli, to derive C/M ratios of the AGB populations and bolometric magnitudes Mbol. At the end of our survey a comparison of all quantities of the late-type stars as a function of the properties of the host galaxies will be made possible.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Stockholm Observatory, Nordic Optical Telescope
- Pages
- 153
- Publication date
- 05-2004
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/75e9d572-b062-40c4-8032-b928f1e90d7a