  Dust radiative transfer models are presented for all 374 AGB stars candidates
in one of the fields observed by the new VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds
(VMC). Mass-loss rates, luminosities and a classification of C- and O-rich
stars are derived by fitting the models to the spectral energy distribution
obtained by combining VMC data with existing optical, near-, and mid-infrared
photometry. This exploratory study shows that our method provides reliable
mass-loss rates, luminosities and chemical classifications for all AGB stars.
These results offer already important constraints to AGB evolutionary models.
Most of our conclusions, especially for the rarer dust-enshrouded extreme AGB
stars, are however strongly limited by the relatively small area covered by our
study. Forthcoming VMC observations will easily remove this limitation.
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