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Carbon Stars in the SMC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

D.H. Morgan
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, U.K.
D. Hatzidimitriou
Affiliation:
University of Crete and Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, P.O. Box 1527, GR 711-10 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Abstract

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More than 1000 new carbon stars have been identified in a ∼200 deg2 area of the SMC during a survey of UK Schmidt Telescope objective-prism plates. Their spatial distribution is like that of the red horizontal branch stars.

Type
Part Ten: The Magellanic Clouds
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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