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The Carbon Star Luminosity Functions in the Magellanic Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Paola Marigo
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching bei München, Germany & Department of Astronomy, University of Padova, Italy
Léo Girardi
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching bei München, Germany

Abstract

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We address the question of reproducing the observed luminosity functions of carbon stars (CSLF) in both the LMC and SMC, characterized by quite different features (i.e., faint end and peak location), using a new formalism for the third dredge-up in TP-AGB models.

Type
Part 5. Stellar Populations and Surveys
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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