IR imaging surveys of AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds
arXiv:0906.3691 · doi:10.1051/eas/1040019
Abstract
AGB stars are ideal IR targets because they are cool and bright. Most of them escaped detection in optical or shallow IR surveys in the eighties contributing to the puzzling missing number of AGB stars with respect to theoretical predictions and former stages of evolution. Observations and AGB models have advanced steadily in the following decades providing us with an almost complete view of the AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds. Their properties are tracers of structure and chemistry across galaxies. New surveys will be able to fill-in the gaps, in terms of sensitivity and monitoring, providing new constraints for the formation and evolution of the Magellanic Clouds.
9 pages, 4 figures, invited talk at conference: 'An astronomical Observatory at Concordia (Dome C, Antarctica) for the next decade', 11-15 May, Rome (Italy)
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