Episodic mass loss in the very luminous red supergiant [W60] B90 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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Table 5

Parameters of [W60] B90 compared to the three known RSGs with a bow shock.

Name	Sp. type	T_eff,TiO	log(L/L_⊙)	Radius	$\dot{M}$ $\[\dot{M}\]$	P	LSP	V_pec	Reference
		(K)	(dex)	(R_⊙)	(10⁻⁶ M_⊙ yr⁻¹)	(d)	(d)	(km s⁻¹)
[W60] B90	M3 I	3550 ± 40	5.32 ± 0.01	1210	${4.4}_{- 1.7}^{+ 5.1}$ $\[4.4_{-1.7}^{+5.1}\]$	1006	4900	16–25	This work, (1)
Betelgeuse	M2 I	3650 ± 25	5.10 ± 0.22	750–1000	1–4	388	2050	30	(2–5)
IRC-10414	M7 I	3300	5.2	1200	<10	768	−	70	(6)
μ Cep	M2 Ia	3750 ± 20	5.45 ± 0.40	1259	7.6^(a)	860	4400	80	(7–9)

Notes. ^(a)Converted from Shenoy et al. (2016) assuming a gas-to-dust ratio of 200. (1) Antoniadis et al. (2024), (2) Levesque et al. (2005), (3) Joyce et al. (2020), (4) Kravchenko et al. (2021), (5) Le Bertre et al. (2012), (6) Gvaramadze et al. (2014), (7) Josselin & Plez (2007), (8) Shenoy et al. (2016) (9) Tetzlaff et al. (2011).

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