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Thursday, September 20, 2012

The optically bright post-AGB population of the LMC

[ ADS ] [ arXiv ]
E. van Aarle, H. Van Winckel, T. Lloyd Evans, T. Ueta, P. R. Wood, and A. G. Ginsburg
A catalog of post-AGB stars in the LMC, useful in particular because they are at a common distance. Post-AGB stars are quite luminous (> 1000 LO usually), so easily detected in the LMC.

My contribution to this work was years ago; I worked on the SAGE project for a few months at the University of Denver with Toshiya Ueta. I generated a catalog of post-AGB objects and an online catalog with automatic SED plotter. It was a pretty neat project, but I left before I was able to convince others that my catalog was definitive; nonetheless it was eventually used in this publication. As an aside, that was my first foray into data languages, and I ended up using the Perl Data Language long before I learned of python and before I got a free IDL license.

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