The Large Magellanic Cloud as a laboratory for hot bottom burning in massive asymptotic giant branch stars

Ventura, PKarakas, AmandaDell'Agli, FBoyer, M LGarcia-Hernandez, D. A.Di Criscienzo, MSchneider, R2015-12-130035-8711http://hdl.handle.net/1885/70629We 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 initialThe Large Magellanic Cloud as a laboratory for hot bottom burning in massive asymptotic giant branch stars201510.1093/mnras/stv9182015-12-11