ISOGAL survey of Baade’s Windows
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The Baade’s Windows of low obscuration towards the inner parts of the Galactic bulge represent ideal places in which to develop an understanding of the ISOGAL colour-magnitude diagrams. Unlike the case for the solar neighbourhood, their contents are at a uniform distance from the Sun, affected only by the finite thickness of the Bulge. The objects detected in the ISOGAL survey are found to be late-type M-giants at the red giant tip or on the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB). The ISOGAL colour-magnitude diagrams show that mass-loss starts at about M4 and increases towards later types. Many non-Miras have mass-loss rates similar to shorter-period
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