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J/A+A/299/453                    OH/IR stars photometry          (Lepine+, 1995)
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OH/IR stars: near-infrared photometry, and discussion of the Mira-OH/IR sequence
       Lepine J.R.D., Ortiz R., Epchtein N.
      <Astron. Astrophys. 299, 453 (1995)>
      =1995A&A...299..453L      (SIMBAD/NED Reference)
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ADC_Keywords: Stars, masers;  Photometry, infrared
Keywords: stars: AGB, post-AGB ; evolution ; circumstellar matter -
          infrared: stars

Abstract:
   This paper presents JHKL'M photometry of a new sample of OH/IR stars.
   These data are merged with similar observations collected in the
   literature in order to constitute a data base of near-infrared photometry
   for 400 OH/IR stars. After removing from this sample  the objects that are
   unlikely to be   AGB stars, we obtain a sequence of average  OH/IR stars
   with increasing values of the colour index K-L'. A simple model of a star
   surrounded  by a circumstellar shell is constructed in order to derive
   basic parameters such as luminosity, radius, stellar temperature, optical
   depth of the dust shell and  mass loss rate. These parameters are found
   to vary smoothly along the sequence of OH/IR stars, and the K-L' colour is
   shown to describe almost completely the basic  physical parameters  of an
   OH/IR star. The metallicity affects the OH-peak separation, but does not
   play an important role in the  definition of the other properties.

File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table1             37      405   Near-infrared counterparts of OH/IR stars
table2             74      383   Catalog of near-infrared photometry of
                                 OH/IR stars
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   3- 13  A11    ---     IRAS     IRAS name
  15- 16  I2     ---     Ref      Reference (1)
  18- 37  A20    ---     OtherRef Other reference (1)
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Note (1): 00=this work; 01=Fouque et al. 1992;
          02=Epchtein et al. 1990; 03=Guglielmo et al. 1993;
          04=Epchtein & Nguyen-Quang-Rieu 1982;
          05=Le Bertre 1987; 06=Le Bertre 1991; 07=Braz & Epchtein 1982;
          08=Le Bertre et al. 1984; 09=Epchtein et al. 1980;
          10=Epchtein & Lepine; 1981; 11=Le Bertre et al. 1984;
          12=Epchtein et al. 1987; 13=Braz & Epchtein 1987;
          14=Whitelock & Feast 1984; 15=Whitelock 1985; 16=Whitelock et al.1986;
          17=Gaylard & Whitelock 1988; 18=Gaylard et al. 1989;
          19=Whitelock et al. 1991; 20=Feast et al. 1983; 21=Glass 1988;
          22=Glass 1986; 23=Glass 1978; 24=Persi et al. 1990;
          25=Persi & Ferrari-Toniolo 1984; 26=Manchado et al. 1989;
          27=Garcia-Lario et al. 1990; 28=Garcia-Lario et al. 1993;
          29=van der Veen 1988; 30=Blommaert et al. 1993; 31=Blommaert 1992;
          32=Willems & de Jong 1982; 33=Evans & Beckwith 1977;
          34=Engels et al. 1981; 35=Schultz et al. 1976; 36=Werner et al. 1989;
          37=Wilson et al. 1972; 38=Jones et al. 1982; 39=Jones et al. 1983;
          40=Lawrence et al. 1990; 41=Fix & Mutel 1984; 42=Allen et al. 1977;
          43=Gosnell et al. 1979; 44=Persson & Campbell 1988;
          45=Nyman et al. 1993; 46=Le Bertre 1993
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2
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   Bytes Format  Units   Label    Explanations
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   1- 10  A10    ---     IRAS     IRAS name
      11  A1     ---   m_IRAS     Multiplicity index on IRAS
  13- 18  F6.2   deg     LON      Longitude
  20- 25  F6.2   deg     LAT      Latitude
  27- 32  F6.1   km/s    Vlow     Lowest velocity
  34- 39  F6.1   km/s    Vhigh    Highest velocity
  41- 44  F4.1   kpc     Dist     Distance
  46- 50  F5.2   mag     Kmag     K magnitude
  53- 56  F4.2   mag     J-H      []? J-H colour
  59- 62  F4.2   mag     H-K      []? H-K colour
  64- 68  F5.2   mag     K-L      []? K-L colour
  70- 74  F5.2   mag     L-M      []? L-M colour
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