An improved catalog of oxygen-rich AGB stars

  • Kwon, Young-Joo (Dept. of Astronomy and Space Science, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Suh, Kyung-Won (Dept. of Astronomy and Space Science, Chungbuk National University)
  • Published : 2010.10.06

Abstract

We have made an improved catalog of O-rich AGB stars in our Galaxy from the sources listed in the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) point source catalog (PSC). We compile the lists of previous works with various verifying processes. We have removed 115 stars from the previous catalog of Suh & Kwon (2009) and added 958 more stars. The improved catalog contains 3036 O-rich AGB stars. The content of the revised catalog can be divided into 3 groups based on the verifying processes: OH/IR stars, SiO maser stars, and other detecting methods. We compare the new catalog with the previous catalog on the infrared two-color diagrams for the large sample of O-rich AGB stars. And we discuss differences among the 3 groups of the improved catalog and identification processes of some stars in exceptive cases.

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