OH/IR Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: The Observations

Long-period variables in the Magellanic Clouds

“…Some of the most luminous optically visible LPVs (including objects found on I plates) were detected by IRAS, but many of the IRAS point sources have no optical counterparts. The colours of some of these IRAS sources indicate that they may be variable OH/IR stars, and a number of them have been monitored in the near infrared (JHK); some variable sources have been found by Whitelock et al (1989) in the SMC and by Wood et al (1990) in the LMC and SMC. …”