The Nearby Evolved Stars Survey (NESS) V: properties of volume-limited samples of Galactic evolved stars
ABSTRACT We provide a meta-study of the statistical and individual properties of two volume-complete sets of evolved stars in the solar neighbourhood: (1) 852 stars from the Nearby Evolved Stars Survey (NESS), and (2) a partially overlapping set of 507 evolved stars within 300 pc. We also investigate distance determinations to these stars, their luminosity functions and their spatial distribution. Gaia apsis GSP-Phot aeneas temperatures of bright giant stars often appear to be underestimated. Existing literature on asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars undersamples both the most and least extreme nearby dust-producing stars. We reproduce the literature star formation history of the solar neighbourhood, though stellar-evolution models overpredict the number of AGB stars of ages around 500 Myr. The distribution of AGB stars broadly matches the known 300 pc scale height of the Galactic disc and shows concentration in the direction of the Galactic centre. Most dust-producing carbon stars belong to the Galactic thick-disc population.
Authors
- Christopher J. R. Clark (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7959-4902)
- J. S. Greaves (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3133-413X)
- F. Kemper (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2743-8240)
- Hyosun Kim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9639-0354)
- A. A. Zijlstra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3171-5469)
- J. Cami (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2666-9234)
- R. Wesson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4000-4394)
- S. Srinivasan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2996-305X)
- Gioia Rau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3042-4539)
- J. G. A. Wouterloot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4694-6905)
- Jacco Th. van Loon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1272-3017)
- Iain McDonald (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0356-0655)
- J. P. Marshall (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6208-1801)
- T. E. Dharmawardena (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9583-5216)
- A. Trejo-Cruz
- Peter Scicluna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1161-3756)
- C. A. Haswell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8050-1897)
- S. H. J. Wallström (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-7097)
- T. Danilovich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1283-6038)
- Hiroshi Imai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0880-0091)
- K E Kraemer
- Hiroko Shinnaga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9407-6775)
- Olivia Jones (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4870-5547)
- Jun He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7062-4001)
Institutions
- Boston College (US)
- Kagoshima University (JP)
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
- Western University (CA)
- Space Telescope Science Institute (US)
- Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
- U.S. National Science Foundation (US)
- Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (TW)
- Institute of Space Sciences (ES)
- University of Hertfordshire (GB)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- The Open University (GB)
- Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KR)
- Yunnan Observatories (CN)
- Valencian International University (ES)
- University of Manchester (GB)
- Chinese Academy of Science South America Center for Astronomy (CL)
- ASTRO-3D (AU)
- Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (ES)
- Royal Observatory (GB)
- Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (DE)
- East Asian Observatory (US)
- Institute of Astronomy (RU)
- Flatiron Health (United States) (US)
- ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (AU)
- National Astronomical Observatories (CN)
- Flatiron Institute (US)
- University College London (GB)
- UK Astronomy Technology Centre (GB)
- Keele University (GB)
- Monash University (AU)
- New York University (US)
- University of Chile (CL)
- Cardiff University (GB)
- Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (US)
- KU Leuven (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Published
- 2025-06-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staf978
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.31
Funders
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- California Institute of Technology
- Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
- European Commission
- National Research Foundation
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Academia Sinica
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Nuclear Safety and Security Commission
- Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
- Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea
- HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Science and Technology Facilities Council