The superwind mass-loss rate of the metal-poor carbon star LI-LMC 1813 in the LMC cluster KMHK 1603

Van Loon, Jacco T.H, Marshall, Jonathan R., Matsuura, Mikako ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5529-5593 and Zijlstra, Albert A. 2003. The superwind mass-loss rate of the metal-poor carbon star LI-LMC 1813 in the LMC cluster KMHK 1603. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 341 (4) , pp. 1205-1216. 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06483.x

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Abstract

LI-LMC 1813 is a dust-enshrouded asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star, located in the small open cluster KMHK 1603 near the rim of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Optical and infrared photometry between 0.5 and 60 μm is obtained to constrain the spectral energy distribution of LI-LMC 1813. Near-infrared spectra unambiguously show it to be a carbon star. Modelling with the radiation transfer code DUSTY yields accurate values for the bolometric luminosity, L= 1.5 × 10⁴ L_solar, and mass-loss rate, . On the basis of colour-magnitude diagrams, the age of the cluster KMHK 1603 is estimated to be t= 0.9-1.0 Gyr, which implies a zero-age main-sequence mass for LI-LMC 1813 of M_ZAMS= 2.2 +/- 0.1 M_solar. This makes LI-LMC 1813 arguably the object with the most accurately and reliably determined (circum)stellar parameters amongst all carbon stars in the superwind phase....

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0035-8711
Last Modified:	02 May 2024 09:03
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/168120

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