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Near-Infrared Catalogue of the Magellanic Clouds: DENIS (Deep Near-IR Southern Sky Survey)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

M. R. Cioni
Affiliation:
Sterrewacht Leiden, Postbus 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, Nederland
H. J. Habing
Affiliation:
Sterrewacht Leiden, Postbus 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, Nederland
C. Loup
Affiliation:
IAP, 98 bis Boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
M.A.T. Groenewegen
Affiliation:
MPI für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany
N. Epchtein
Affiliation:
Obs. de Côte d'Azur, 06304 Nice Cedex 04, France and the DENIS Consortium

Abstract

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We report here on a preliminary analysis of the DENIS new IR point source catalogue of the Magellanic Clouds. After subtracting the contribution of foreground stars we interpret the colour-colour diagrams and colour-magnitude diagrams that characterize the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB). The AGB stars cause a clear bump in the luminosity function and they are distributed in two distinct regions, according to the spectral type (C-rich and O-rich), in the colour-luminosity diagram.

Type
Part 2: The Database
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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