A&A Supplement series, Vol. 123, May II 1997, 115-118
Received August 12; accepted September 18, 1996
Y.K. Ng
and M. Schultheis
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IAP, CNRS, 98bis Boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
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Institut für Astronomie der Universität Wien,
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A catalogue is presented with variable (RR Lyrae, semiregular and Mira) stars located inside field #3 of the Palomar-Groningen Survey at the outer edge of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. One of the semiregular variables is a carbon star, comparable with those found by Azzopardi et al. (1991). Serendipity provides the suggestion, that their carbon stars might not be located inside, but behind the bulge in the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy.
keywords: stars: carbon; AGB, post AGB; variables: others -- local group -- galaxies: Sagittarius dwarf