Symbiotic stars are binary stars that consist of a primary star, usually a red giant, and a compact object, usually a white dwarf or a neutron star. The main subject is the study of the chemical-kinematic properties of symbiotic stars. The data used was from the GALAH survey which is using the HERMES spectrograph along with the Anglo-Australian Telescope located at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. GALAH survey observed a total of more than 550000 stars. A sample of 15830 giants of spectral type M was selected by applying the conditions for the color $ (J-K_s)> 0.9 $ and parallax $ \pi \le $ 1 mas. First, we divided the stars from GALAH into groups according to their color indices $( J-K_s) _0 $ and thus created 13 templates representing the subclasses of spectral type M. In symbiotic stars, the mass is transferred between a red giant and a compact object, which is characterized by an excess of light in Balmer's H$ \alpha $ line of hydrogen. The sample of giants was divided into two groups, the first with strong and the second with weakly expressed H$\alpha $ emission. After visual inspection of the spectra, we obtain the first sample with 33 candidates for symbiotic stars and the second sample with 381 candidates for symbiotic stars. Using stellar parameters from the GALAH catalog, we tried to distinguish between giants on the red giant branch (RGB) and between giants on the asymptotic giant branch (AGB), which are in different stages of evolution. This would give better templates and we would be able to analyze the chemical properties of giants and symbiotic stars more accurately. There is little reliable data for our sample of 15830 giants, so we looked for a separation between AGB and RGB stars in the raw GALAH spectra. We have integrated areas in the spectrum where elements, that should be more strongly represented in AGB stars, were located. We were looking for a correlation between the relative intensity of the lines and the infrared color index W3-W4, as such lines could help identify systems with AGB giants. In a smaller sample, we get 4 candidates for AGB stars, which represents 12% of stars in this sample. In the larger sample, there is 21 candidates for AGB stars, which is about 6% of the stars in this sample. These results are consistent with data from the literature.
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