The Large Magellanic Cloud as a laboratory for hot bottom burning in massive asymptotic giant branch stars
We use Spitzer observations of the rich population of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to test models describing the internal structure and nucleosynthesis of the most massive of these stars, i.e. those with initial mass above ˜4 M⊙. To this aim, we compare Spitzer observations of LMC stars with the
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