The properties of single WO stars

Authors
Publication date 2015
Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Event New windows on massive stars: asteroseismology, interferometry, and spectropolarimetry
Volume | Issue number 307
Pages (from-to) 144-145
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract The enigmatic oxygen sequence Wolf-Rayet (WO) stars represent a very late stage in massive star evolution, although their exact nature is still under debate. The spectra of most of the WO stars have never been analysed through detailed modelling with a non-local thermodynamic equilibrium expanding atmosphere code. Here we present preliminary results of the first homogeneous analysis of the (apparently) single WOs.
Document type Article
Note Proceedings title: New windows on massive stars: asteroseismology, interferometry, and spectropolarimetry: proceedings of the 307th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Geneva, Switzerland June 23-27, 2014 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Place of publication: Cambridge ISBN: 9781107078581 Editors: G. Meynet, C. Georgy, J. Groh
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921314006590
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