J/ApJS/256/43       O-rich and C-rich AGB stars in our Galaxy       (Suh, 2021)

A new catalog of asymptotic giant branch stars in our Galaxy. Suh K.-W. <Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 256, 43 (2021)> =2021ApJS..256...43S 2021ApJS..256...43S
ADC_Keywords: Stars, giant; Stars, carbon; Milky Way; Photometry, infrared; Spectral types; Stars, variable; Cross identifications; Surveys Keywords: Asymptotic giant branch stars ; Circumstellar dust ; Long period variable stars ; Milky Way Galaxy ; Infrared astronomy ; Radiative transfer Abstract: We present a new catalog of 11209 O-rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and 7172 C-rich AGB stars in our Galaxy, identifying more AGB stars in the bulge component and considering more visual carbon stars. For each object, we cross-identify the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), AKARI, Midcourse Space Experiment, Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), Two-Micron All-Sky Survey, and American Association of Variable Star Observers counterparts. We present the new catalog in two parts: one is based on the IRAS PSC for brighter or more isolated objects; the other one is based on the ALLWISE source catalog for less bright objects or objects in crowded regions. We present various infrared two-color diagrams (2CDs) for the sample stars. We find that the theoretical dust shell models can roughly explain the observations of AGB stars on the various IR 2CDs. We investigate IR properties of SiO and OH maser emission sources in the catalog. For Mira variables in the sample stars, we find that the IR colors get redder for longer pulsation periods. We also study infrared variability of the sample stars using the WISE photometric data in the last 12yr: the ALLWISE multiepoch data and the Near-Earth Object WISE Reactivation 2021 data release. We generate light curves using the WISE data at W1 and W2 bands and compute the Lomb-Scargle periodograms for all of the sample stars. From the WISE light curves, we have found useful variation parameters for 3710 objects in the catalog, for which periods were either known or unknown in previous works. Description: In this paper, we use only good-quality observational data at all wavelength bands for the IRAS (Beichman+ 1988, II/125), 2MASS (Cutri+ 2003, II/246), WISE (Wright+ 2010, see II/328), AKARI (Murakami+ 2007PASJ...59S.369M 2007PASJ...59S.369M ; see II/297 & II/298), and MSX (Egan+ 2003, V/114) photometric data (q=3 for IRAS and AKARI; q=A for 2MASS; q=A or B for WISE; q=3 or 4 for MSX). File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table9.dat 184 5908 O-rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars based on IRAS PSC (OAGB-IRAS) table10.dat 171 3596 C-rich AGB stars based on IRAS PSC (CAGB-IRAS) table11.dat 163 5301 O-rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars based on AllWISE (OAGB-WISE) table12.dat 164 3576 C-rich AGB stars based on AllWISE (CAGB-WISE) table13.dat 174 885 OAGB-IRAS objects with obtained variation parameters from WISE light curves table14.dat 173 141 CAGB-IRAS objects with obtained variation parameters from WISE light curves table15.dat 108 2468 OAGB-WISE objects with obtained variation parameters from WISE light curves table16.dat 108 216 CAGB-WISE objects with obtained variation parameters from WISE light curves -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: B/vsx : AAVSO International Variable Star Index VSX (Watson+, 2006-2014) B/gcvs : General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+, 2007-2017) II/125 : IRAS catalogue of Point Sources, Version 2.0 (IPAC 1986) III/197 : IRAS Low Resolution Spectra (IRAS team, 1987) III/227 : General Cat. of galactic Carbon stars, 3d Ed. (Alksnis+ 2001) V/114 : MSX6C Infrared Point Source Catalog (Egan+ 2003) II/246 : 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003) II/297 : AKARI/IRC mid-IR all-sky Survey (ISAS/JAXA, 2010) II/298 : AKARI/FIS All-Sky Survey Point Source Catalogues (ISAS/JAXA, 2010) II/328 : AllWISE Data Release (Cutri+ 2013) II/338 : IRAS PSC/FSC Combined Catalogue (Abrahamyan+ 2015) J/ApJS/112/557 : Classification of IRAS Sources (Kwok+ 1997) J/MNRAS/301/640 : Ultracompact H II regions studies. II. (Walsh+, 1998) J/A+A/368/1006 : OH/IR stars with IRAS LRS spectra (Chen+, 2001) J/A+A/514/A2 : AKARI/HIP and AKARI/2MASS samples (Ita+, 2010) J/AJ/144/129 : 83 known stellar SiO maser sources (Cho+, 2012) J/PASJ/64/4 : SiO maser survey of nearby red variables (Deguchi+, 2012) J/AJ/145/22 : Simultaneous SiO and H2O maser observations (Kim+, 2013) J/AcA/63/21 : VI light curves of Galactic LPVs (Soszynski+, 2013) J/ApJS/211/15 : SiO & H2O masers toward AGB & post-AGB stars (Yoon+, 2014) J/ApJ/792/30 : NEOWISE magnitudes for near-Earth objects (Mainzer+, 2014) J/A+A/582/A68 : Database of circumstellar OH masers (Engels+, 2015) J/A+A/579/A76 : Gal. bulge extremely reddened AGB (Jimenez-Esteban+, 2015) J/A+A/619/A35 : 86GHz SiO masers of late-type stars. IV (Messineo+, 2018) J/ApJS/244/25 : The BAaDE SiO maser survey at 86GHz with ALMA (Stroh+, 2019) J/MNRAS/505/6051 : Arecibo sample variability (Jimenez-Esteban+, 2021) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table9.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- OI-N [1/5908] OAGB-IRAS running sequence number 6- 10 A5 --- Ref Supgroup identifier (1) 12- 22 A11 --- IRAS IRAS PSC identifier (HHMMm+DDMM; B1950) 24- 37 A14 --- AKARIP AKARI PSC identifier (HHMMSSs+DDMMSS, J2000; <AKARI-IRC-V1 JHHMMSSs+DDMMSS> in Simbad) 39- 52 A14 --- AKARIB AKARI BSC identifier (HHMMSSs+DDMMSS, J2000; <AKARI-FIS-V1 JHHMMSSs+DDMMSS> in Simbad) 54- 63 F10.6 deg RAdeg Best Right Ascension in decimal degrees (J2000) 65- 74 F10.6 deg DEdeg Best Declination in decimal degrees (J2000) 76- 82 A7 --- BPos Best position source (2) 84- 102 A19 --- WISEA ALLWISE identifier (JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s) 104- 120 A17 --- SpType Kwok+ 1997, J/ApJS/112/557 spectral type 122- 127 A6 --- LRS Kwok+ 1997, J/ApJS/112/557 IRAS LRS type 129- 157 A29 --- AName AAVSO identifier 159- 166 A8 --- AType AAVSO variable type 168- 180 F13.8 d APer [0.06/2052.2]? AAVSO period 182 A1 --- OH A OH maser detection? (See Section 5.2) 184 A1 --- SiO A SiO maser detection? (See Section 5.2) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Subgroup, further defined in Table 1, as follows: OI-SH = Suh & Hong (2017JKAS...50..131S 2017JKAS...50..131S ; 3826 occurrences) OI-OG = Soszynski et al. (2013, J/AcA/63/21 ; 1057 occurrences) OI-ST = Stroh et al. (2019, J/ApJS/244/25 ; 673 occurrences) OI-AM = This work, AAVSO Miras with IRAS LRS type E (see Section 2.3; 163 occurrences) OI-ME = Messineo et al. (2018, J/A+A/619/A35 ; 127 occurrences) OI-UR = Urago et al. (2020ApJ...891...50U 2020ApJ...891...50U ; 37 occurrences) OI-WU = Wu et al. (2018MNRAS.473.3325W 2018MNRAS.473.3325W ; 19 occurrences) OI-JB = Jimenez-Esteban & Engels (2015, J/A+A/579/A76 ; 6 occurrences) Note (2): Best position source as follows: akari-p = AKARI PSC (9 and 18um; 5675 occurrences) akari-b = AKARI BSC (65, 90, 140 and 160um; 81 occurrences) iras = IRAS PSC (12, 25, 60 and 100um; 152 occurrences) See Section 2.2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table10.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- CI-N [1/3596] CAGB-IRAS running sequence number 6- 10 A5 --- Ref Supgroup identifier (1) 12- 22 A11 --- IRAS IRAS PSC identifier (HHMMm+DDMM; B1950) 24- 37 A14 --- AKARIP AKARI PSC identifier (HHMMSSs+DDMMSS, J2000; <AKARI-IRC-V1 JHHMMSSs+DDMMSS> in Simbad) 39- 52 A14 --- AKARIB AKARI BSC identifier (HHMMSSs+DDMMSS, J2000; <AKARI-FIS-V1 JHHMMSSs+DDMMSS> in Simbad) 54- 63 F10.6 deg RAdeg Best Right Ascension (J2000) 65- 74 F10.6 deg DEdeg Best Declination (J2000) 76- 82 A7 --- BPos Best position source (2) 84- 102 A19 --- WISEA ALLWISE identifier (JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s) 104- 115 A12 --- SpType Kwok+ 1997, J/ApJS/112/557 spectral type 117 A1 --- LRS Kwok+ 1997, J/ApJS/112/557 IRAS LRS type 119- 147 A29 --- AName AAVSO identifier 149- 158 A10 --- AType AAVSO variable type 160- 171 F12.7 d APer [0.14/2950]? AAVSO period -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Subgroup, further defined in Table 1, as follows: CI-GC = Alksnis et al. (2001, Cat. III/227 ; 2417 occurrences) CI-SH = Suh & Hong (2017JKAS...50..131S 2017JKAS...50..131S ; 1165 occurrences) CI-OG = Soszynski et al. (2013, J/AcA/63/21 ; 9 occurrences) CI-UR = Urago et al. (2020ApJ...891...50U 2020ApJ...891...50U ; 5 occurrences) Note (2): Best position source as follows: akari-p = AKARI PSC (3555 occurrences) akari-b = AKARI BSC (6 occurrences) iras = IRAS PSC (35 occurrences) See Section 2.2. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table11.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- OW-N [1/5301] OAGB-WISE running sequence number 6- 10 A5 --- Ref Supgroup identifier (1) 12- 17 I6 --- recStar [0/232397] Record number / Star number 19- 37 A19 --- WISEA ALLWISE identifier (JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s) 39- 49 F11.7 deg RAdeg [240/287] ALLWISE Right Ascension (J2000) 51- 61 F11.7 deg DEdeg [-54/6] ALLWISE Declination (J2000) 63- 79 A17 --- 2MASS 2MASS identifier (HHMMSSss+DDMMSSss; J2000) 81- 94 A14 --- AKARIP AKARI PSC identifier (HHMMSSs+DDMMSS, J2000; <AKARI-IRC-V1 JHHMMSSs+DDMMSS> in Simbad) 96- 112 A17 --- MSX6C MSX identifier (GLLL.llll+BB.bbbb) 114- 141 A28 --- AName AAVSO identifier 143- 150 A8 --- AType AAVSO variable type 152- 163 F12.7 d APer [0.24/696.1]? AAVSO period -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Subgroup, further defined in Table 2, as follows: OW-OG = Soszynski et al. (2013, J/AcA/63/21 ; 4913 occurrences) OW-ST = Stroh et al. (2019, J/ApJS/244/25 ; 231 occurrences) OW-ME = Messineo et al. (2018, J/A+A/619/A35 ; 157 occurrences) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table12.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- CW-N [1/3576] CAGB-WISE running sequence number 6- 10 A5 --- Ref Supgroup identifier (1) 12- 17 I6 --- recStar [1/231979] Record number / Star number 19- 37 A19 --- WISEA ALLWISE identifier (JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS.s) 39- 49 F11.7 deg RAdeg ALLWISE Right Ascension (J2000) 51- 61 F11.7 deg DEdeg ALLWISE Declination (J2000) 63- 79 A17 --- 2MASS 2MASS identifier (HHMMSSss+DDMMSSss; J2000) 81- 94 A14 --- AKARIP AKARI PSC identifier (HHMMSSs+DDMMSS, J2000; <AKARI-IRC-V1 JHHMMSSs+DDMMSS> in Simbad) 96- 112 A17 --- MSX6C MSX identifier (GLLL.llll+BB.bbbb) 114- 141 A28 --- AName AAVSO identifier 143- 150 A8 --- AType AAVSO variable type 152- 164 F13.8 d APer [0.1/1490]? AAVSO period -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Subgroup, further defined in Table 2, as follows: CW-GC = Alksnis et al. (2001, Cat. III/227 ; 3417 occurrences) CW-OG = Soszynski et al. (2013, J/AcA/63/21 ; 159 occurrences) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table13.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- OI-N [181/5861] OAGB-IRAS identifier (see Table 9) 6- 12 A7 --- AType AAVSO variable type 14- 25 F12.7 d APer [0.24/1750]? AAVSO period 27- 33 F7.2 d EP [51.7/3079.2]? Expected period (1) 35- 41 F7.2 d G-W1(P) [52.6/2290.1]? Good period derived from WISE W1 light curve 43- 47 F5.3 mag G-W1(A) [0.06/2.11]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W1 light curve 49- 53 F5.3 --- G-W1(R2) [0.6/0.98]? Good R2 derived from WISE W1 light curve 55- 61 F7.2 d GM-W1(P) [163.82/1699.1]? Good selected period derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 63- 67 F5.3 mag GM-W1(A) [0.2/1.5]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 69- 73 F5.3 --- GM-W1(R2) [0.3/0.97]? Good R2 derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 75- 81 F7.2 d GN-W1(P) [72.27/2290.05]? Good selected period derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object with unknown period or known as a non-Mira variable 83- 87 F5.3 mag GN-W1(A) [0.05/1.8]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object with unknown period or known as a non-Mira variable 89- 94 F6.3 --- GN-W1(R2) [0.04/0.98]? Good R2 derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object with unknown period or known as a non-Mira variable 96- 102 F7.2 d G-W2(P) [56/2263]? Good period derived from WISE W2 light curve 104- 108 F5.3 mag G-W2(A) [0.07/4.92]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W2 light curve 110- 114 F5.3 --- G-W2(R2) [0.6/0.98]? Good R2 derived from WISE W2 light curve 116- 122 F7.2 d GM-W2(P) [157.34/1778.2]? Good selected period derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 124- 128 F5.3 mag GM-W2(A) [0.099/2.2]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 130- 135 F6.3 --- GM-W2(R2) [-0.23/0.94]? Good R2 derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 137- 143 F7.2 d GN-W2(P) [72.4/2263]? Good selected period derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object with unknown period or known as a non-Mira variable 145- 149 F5.3 mag GN-W2(A) [0.07/2.2]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object with unknown period or known as a non-Mira variable 151- 156 F6.3 --- GN-W2(R2) [-0.2/0.97]? Good R2 derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object with unknown period or known as a non-Mira variable 158- 162 A5 --- Ref Supgroup identifier (see Table 9) 164- 174 A11 --- IRAS IRAS PSC identifier -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Expected period from the IR color K[2.2]-W3[12] (see Section 8.4) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table14.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- CI-N [6/3590] CAGB-IRAS identifier (see Table 10) 6- 12 A7 --- AType AAVSO variable type 14- 25 F12.7 d APer [0.29/1060]? AAVSO period 27- 33 F7.2 d EP [83.5/3990.5]? Expected period (1) 35- 41 F7.2 d G-W1(P) [51.5/2185.4]? Good period derived from WISE W1 light curve 43- 47 F5.3 mag G-W1(A) [0.4/2.9]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W1 light curve 49- 53 F5.3 --- G-W1(R2) [0.6/0.96]? Good R2 derived from WISE W1 light curve 55- 61 F7.2 d GM-W1(P) [130.29/1018]? Good selected period derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 63- 67 F5.3 mag GM-W1(A) [0.44/2.93]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 69- 73 F5.3 --- GM-W1(R2) [0.2/0.94]? Good R2 derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 75- 81 F7.2 d GN-W1(P) [90/1183]? Good selected period derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object with unknown period or known as a non-Mira variable 83- 87 F5.3 mag GN-W1(A) [0.4/2.7]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object with unknown period or known as a non-Mira variable 89- 94 F6.3 --- GN-W1(R2) [-0.03/0.96]? Good R2 derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object with unknown period or known as a non-Mira variable 96- 102 F7.2 d G-W2(P) [52.49/2500]? Good period derived from WISE W2 light curve 104- 108 F5.3 mag G-W2(A) [0.085/3.4]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W2 light curve 110- 114 F5.3 --- G-W2(R2) [0.6/0.96]? Good R2 derived from WISE W2 light curve 116- 122 F7.2 d GM-W2(P) [364.9/1002]? Good selected period derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 124- 128 F5.3 mag GM-W2(A) [0.6/7]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 130- 135 F6.3 --- GM-W2(R2) [0.6/0.9]? Good R2 derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 137- 143 F7.2 d GN-W2(P) [92.28/1191]? Good selected period derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object with unknown period or known as a non-Mira variable 145- 149 F5.3 mag GN-W2(A) [0.09/3.14]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object with unknown period or known as a non-Mira variable 151- 156 F6.3 --- GN-W2(R2) [0.048/0.92]? Good R2 derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object with unknown period or known as a non-Mira variable 158- 162 A5 --- Ref Supgroup identifier (see Table 10) 164- 173 A10 --- IRAS IRAS PSC identifier -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Expected period from the IR color K[2.2]-W3[12] (see Section 8.4) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table15.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- OW-N [1/5300] OAGB-WISE identifier (see Table 11) 6- 10 A5 --- Ref Supgroup identifier (see Table 11) 12- 16 A5 --- AType AAVSO variable type 17- 29 F13.8 d APer [89.2/696.1]? AAVSO period 31- 37 F7.2 d G-W1(P) [50.77/2500]? Good period derived from WISE W1 light curve 39- 43 F5.3 mag G-W1(A) [0.1/3.4]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W1 light curve 45- 49 F5.3 --- G-W1(R2) [0.6/0.98]? Good R2 derived from WISE W1 light curve 51- 56 F6.2 d GM-W1(P) [87.8/673.7]? Good selected period derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 58- 62 F5.3 mag GM-W1(A) [0.07/4.75]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 64- 68 F5.3 --- GM-W1(R2) [0.05/0.98]? Good R2 derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 70- 76 F7.2 d G-W2(P) [50.89/2500]? Good period derived from WISE W2 light curve 78- 82 F5.3 mag G-W2(A) [0.08/3.06]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W2 light curve 84- 88 F5.3 --- G-W2(R2) [0.6/0.97]? Good R2 derived from WISE W2 light curve 90- 95 F6.2 d GM-W2(P) [92.6/676.1]? Good selected period derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 97- 101 F5.3 mag GM-W2(A) [0.058/5.01]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 103- 108 F6.3 --- GM-W2(R2) [-0.03/0.97]? Good R2 derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table16.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 4 I4 --- CW-N [7/3576] CAGB-WISE identifier (see Table 12) 6- 10 A5 --- Ref Supgroup identifier (see Table 12) 12- 16 A5 --- AType AAVSO variable type 17- 29 F13.8 d APer [0.24/1489.6]? AAVSO period 31- 37 F7.2 d G-W1(P) [51.74/2500]? Good period derived from WISE W1 light curve 39- 43 F5.3 mag G-W1(A) [0.046/2.11]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W1 light curve 45- 49 F5.3 --- G-W1(R2) [0.6/0.96]? Good R2 derived from WISE W1 light curve 51- 56 F6.2 d GM-W1(P) [84.98/525.4]? Good selected period derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 58- 62 F5.3 mag GM-W1(A) [0.1/1.9]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 64- 68 F5.3 --- GM-W1(R2) [0.4/0.96]? Good R2 derived from WISE W1 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 70- 76 F7.2 d G-W2(P) [51.3/2468]? Good period derived from WISE W2 light curve 78- 82 F5.3 mag G-W2(A) [0.05/1.4]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W2 light curve 84- 88 F5.3 --- G-W2(R2) [0.6/0.97]? Good R2 derived from WISE W2 light curve 90- 95 F6.2 d GM-W2(P) [85.25/522.51]? Good selected period derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 97- 101 F5.3 mag GM-W2(A) [0.12/1.3]? Good amplitude derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period 103- 108 F6.3 --- GM-W2(R2) [0.46/0.96]? Good R2 derived from WISE W2 light curve for an object known as a Mira variable with period -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
(End) Prepared by [AAS], Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 14-Feb-2022
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