Physical properties of cool SGs in LMC

Despite their importance, the fundamental properties of these stars --logTeff and logL/L_{sun}_-- are only known for a limited number of objects. The third data release of the Gaia mission contains precise photometry and low-resolution spectroscopy of hundreds of cool supergiants in the LMC with well-constrained properties.

Using these data, we train a simple and easily interpretable machine-learning model to regress effective temperatures and luminosities with high accuracy and precision comparable to the training data. We then apply our model to 5000 cool supergiants, many of which have no previously published Teff or L estimates. The resulting Hertzprung-Russell diagram is well populated, allowing us to study the distribution of cool supergiants in great detail.