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GAIA: AGB Stars as Tracers of Star Formation Histories in the Galaxy and Beyond

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Mass-Losing Pulsating Stars and their Circumstellar Matter

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ((ASSL,volume 283))

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We discuss the tracing of star formation histories with ESA’s space astrometry mission GAIA, emphasizing the advantages of AGB stars for the purpose. GAIA’s microarcsecond-level astrometry, multi-band photometry and spectroscopy will provide individual distances, motions, T eff, log g and [M/H] for vast numbers of AGB stars in the Galaxy and beyond. Reliable ages of AGB stars can be determined to distances of ~200 kpc in a wide range of ages and metallicities, allowing star formation histories to be studied in a diversity of astrophysical environments

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  1. Lund Observatory, Box 43, SE-221 00, Lund, Sweden

    Arūnas Kučinskas & Lennart Lindegren

  2. Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Goštauto 12, Vilnius, 2600, Lithuania

    Arūnas Kučinskas

  3. Institute of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 181-0015, Japan

    Toshihiko Tanabé

  4. Institute of Physics, Goštauto 12, Vilnius, 2600, Lithuania

    Vladas Vansevičius

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  1. Kiso Observatory, University of Tokyo, Agematsu, Japan

    Y. Nakada

  2. National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, Japan

    M. Honma

  3. Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

    M. Seki

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Kučinskas, A., Lindegren, L., Tanabé, T., Vansevičius, V. (2003). GAIA: AGB Stars as Tracers of Star Formation Histories in the Galaxy and Beyond. In: Nakada, Y., Honma, M., Seki, M. (eds) Mass-Losing Pulsating Stars and their Circumstellar Matter. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 283. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0139-7_6

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