The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey (NESS) V: Properties of volume-limited samples of Galactic evolved stars

McDonald, I., Srinivasan, S., Scicluna, P., Jones, O. C., Zijlstra, A. A., Wallström, S. H. J., Danilovich, T., He, J. H., Marshall, J. P., van Loon, J. Th., Wesson, R., Kemper, F., Trejo-Cruz, A., Greaves, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3133-413X, Dharmawardena, T., Cami, J., Kim, Hyosun, Kraemer, K. E., Clark, C. J. R., Shinnaga, H., Haswell, C., Imai, H., Wouterloot, J. G. A., Pérez Vidal, A. J. and Rau, G. 2025. The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey (NESS) V: Properties of volume-limited samples of Galactic evolved stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 10.1093/mnras/staf978

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Abstract

We provide a meta-study of the statistical and individual properties of two volume-complete sets of evolved stars in the Solar Neighbourhood: (1) 852 stars from the Nearby Evolved Stars Survey (NESS), and (2) a partially overlapping set of 507 evolved stars within 300 pc. We also investigate distance determinations to these stars, their luminosity functions and their spatial distribution. Gaia apsis GSP-Phot aeneas temperatures of bright giant stars often appear to be underestimated. Existing literature on AGB stars under-samples both the most and least extreme nearby dust-producing stars. We reproduce the literature star-formation history of the solar neighbourhood, though stellar-evolution models over-predict the number of AGB stars of ages around 500 Myr. The distribution of AGB stars broadly matches the known 300 pc scale height of the Galactic disc and shows concentration in the direction of the Galactic centre. Most dust-producing carbon stars belong to the Galactic thick-disc population.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > Physics and Astronomy
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, Start Date: 2025-06-13
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0035-8711
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 June 2025
Last Modified:	24 Jun 2025 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/179289

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