(VFTS 822)

This late B-type star [113] is another object that was identified in the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey [112] based on its blue emission-line spectrum. As with VFTS 1003, a red spectrum is needed to check for the presence of [O I] emission. Similar to that star, VFTS 822 has been proposed as possible Herbig B[e] pre-main sequence candidate. It displays a UV excess typical for pre-main sequence stars, but its luminosity of log *L*/*L* ∼ 4 is not conclusive and leaves as well room for an interpretation as evolved star. In the near-IR diagram, VFTS 822 appears within the B[e]SG domain with a clear separation from the region hosting HAeBe stars, but from the WISE diagram the star is located at the border region with the HAeBes.

**Figure 6.** Location of the new LMC (light blue) and SMC (purple) samples with respect to those MC B[e]SGs that meet all the required classification criteria (dark blue) and LBVs (red triangles) in the near-IR (**top**) and the WISE diagram (**bottom**). Filled circles are used for confirmed B[e]SGs, filled stars for candidates, and empty circles for misclassified objects. A sample of late-type stars and supergiants in the MCs (small gray crosses, from [115]) and a sample of (dereddened, see text) Galactic HAeBe stars (black plus signs, from [116]) are also included. The arrow in each panel indicates the direction of the reddening, and their length complies with a value of *A*V = 3. As the color excess is not known for all MC objects, no extinction correction has been applied. However, the MC stars have in general relatively small color excess values (see Tables 4 and 5), which would shift them only marginally in the diagrams.
