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Table 2:

Summary of the stellar properties of the 9 RSGs for which spectral classification was possible.

ID
Spec $T_{{\rm eff}}(K)$a (J-K)0 (J-K) E(J-K) AKc MKc,d
  type            
S1 K5 I $3840\pm135$ 0.75 3.25 2.50 1.68 -9.1
S2 K4 I $3920\pm112$ 0.72 3.54 2.82 1.89 -8.7
S3 M3 I $3605\pm147$ 0.90 3.56 2.66 1.78 -9.9
S4 M6 I $3400\pm150$ 1.05b 4.59 3.54 2.37 -10.3
S5 K5 I $3840\pm135$ 0.75 3.77 3.02 2.02 -9.9
S6 M2 I $3660\pm127$ 0.87 3.83 2.96 1.98 -9.7
S7 K5 I $3840\pm135$ 0.75 3.40 2.65 1.78 -8.8
S8 M2 I $3660\pm127$ 0.87 3.79 2.92 1.94 -9.4
S9 M1 I $3745\pm117$ 0.85 3.34 2.49 1.67 -9.3

Notes.  (a) Assumed from the calibration of Levesque et al. (2005),following Davies et al. (2008); (b) extrapolated from the calibration; (c) typical errors in AK and MK are 0.2 mag (see text for discussion); (d) assuming a distance of 6.6 kpc, identical to RSGC1.


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