Variable Evolved Stars and Young Stellar Objects Discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud Using the SAGE Survey

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Uma P. Vijh et al. 2009 The Astronomical Journal 137 3139 doi:10.1088/0004-6256/137/2/3139

VARIABLE EVOLVED STARS AND YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS DISCOVERED IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD USING THE SAGE SURVEY

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Uma P. Vijh^1,8, M. Meixner¹, B. Babler², M. Block³, S. Bracker², C. W. Engelbracht³, B. For³, K. Gordon¹, J. Hora⁴, R. Indebetouw⁵, C. Leitherer¹, M. Meade², K. Misselt³, M. Sewilo¹, S. Srinivasan⁶ and B. Whitney⁷

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We present initial results and source lists of variable sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) for which we detect thermal infrared variability from the Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) survey, which had two epochs of photometry separated by 3 months. The SAGE survey mapped a 7° × 7° region of the LMC using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and the MIPS instruments on board Spitzer. Variable sources are identified using a combination of the IRAC 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0 μ bands and the MIPS 24 μ bands. An error-weighted flux difference between the two epochs is used to assess the variability. Of the ~3 million sources detected at both epochs, we find ~2000 variable sources for which we provide electronic catalogs. Most of the variable sources can be classified as asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. A large fraction (>66%) of the extreme AGB stars are variable and only smaller fractions of carbon-rich (6.1%) and oxygen-rich (2.0%) stars are detected as variable sources. We also detect a population of variable young stellar object candidates.

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