Treatment of convection → HBB and 3DUP • Formation and growth of dust grains • No satisfactory theory for mass loss • Interplay between mass loss, 3DUP, HBB
TP-AGB STAR Conundrum: a KEY to Galaxy Evolution • Accurate SFH • Detailed TP-AGB models • Synthetic photometry • Reliable identification of AGB stars Global calibration method of key uncertain processes (mass-loss, 3DUP) as a function of initial mass and metallicity in nearby galaxies Calibration of TP-AGB models
Survey Gordon+11 SFR(t) - Z(t) - DM - Av Rubele+18 o Robust age estimate down to old MSTO o No TP-AGB contribution o PARSEC v1.2s o VMC-SAGE overlap ~ 87 % 147 sub-fields → 21 deg2 Rubele S., Pastorelli G., et al. 2018, MNRAS, 478, 5017
starting in early-AGB - Dust-driven regime O-rich: Blöcker 1995 Ṁ ~ η dust x L2.7 x R x M-3 C-rich: Dynamical atmospheres models (CDYN) Eriksson+14 , Mattsson+10 Fixed 3DUP from Karakas+02 (very efficient 3DU for massive stars) TP-AGB model grid (1)
Pre-dust mass-loss important for low-mass O-rich stars • Mass-loss based on C-star dynamical models • SMC photometry reproduced with 2 different set of models 1) Efficient 3DUP + Extreme mass-loss efficiency for M-stars 2) Less efficient 3DUP (M i > 3 M ☉ ) + lower mass-loss efficiency → better agreement with empirical IFMR → effects on the chemical yields WORK in PROGRESS Calibrated stellar isochrones → stev.oapd.inaf.it/cmd Pastorelli et al. 2019, MNRAS, 485, 5666
and Local Volume Science Collaboration PI L. Girardi TRILEGAL Working Group & STARKEY Team @ UniPd L. Girardi, Y. Chen, G. Pastorelli, P. dal Tio, M. Trabucchi K. Olsen @ NOAO Data Lab LSST-Brazil team @ LinEA M. Barbieri @ LSST-Chile MW working group, Z. Ivezic & M. Juric @ University of Washington PARSEC Team, P. Marigo, A. Bressan @ UniPD & SISSA
used to optimize the LSST observing strategy LSST White Paper: Mapping the Periphery and Variability of the Magellanic Clouds K. Olsen, P. Szkody, M.-R- Cioni, M. Di Criscienzo, I. Musella, V. Ripepi, F. Borsa, M. Marconi, L. Girardi, G. Pastorelli, M. Trabucchi, P. Ventura, M. Moniiez - eprint arXiv:1812.03139 AGBs as seen by LSST
F153M → to separate C- and O-rich stars (Boyer+17) AGB candidates in nearby dwarf galaxies : DUSTiNGS survey (Boyer+15) Most of them are very metal poor (Z ∼0.008Z ☉ ) Local Group Dwarf galaxies
0.3 M(9) C(65) C/M = 7.2 M(22) C(14) C/M = 0.6 M(724) C(540) C/M = 0.7 IC10 IC10 Sex A Sex A (Boyer+17) Simulations based on SFH from HST photometry (Weisz+14, Boyer priv. comm.) Work in progress Good agreement with observed C/M separation More accurate simulations, i.e. phot. err., completeness Data-model comparison
Local Group Dwarf galaxies 3. Simulations of the LSST stellar content Extending the calibration to the LMC (Pastorelli et al., in prep.) Metallicity dependence & additional filters combinations to apply the diagram to more distant objects (Pastorelli et al., in prep.) Constraining models of TP-AGB and Core He-burning stars (Pastorelli et al., in prep.) Including calibrated TP-AGB models & variability information 1. Calibration of TP-AGB models in the SMC Summary