Spectrophotometry of Wolf-Rayet stars. I - Continuum energy distributions

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Jul 1993

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 412, no. 1, p. 324-340.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

57

Spectral Energy Distribution, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Wolf-Rayet Stars, Helium, Interstellar Extinction, Iue, Magellanic Clouds, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Mass Ejection

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All available low-resolution IUE spectra are assembled for Galactic, LMC, and SMC W-R stars and are merged with ground-based optical and NIR spectra in order to collate in a systematic fashion the shapes of these energy distributions over the wavelength range 0.1-1 micron. They can be consistently fitted by a power law of the form F(lambda) is approximately equal to lambda exp -alpha over the range 1500-9000 A to derive color excesses E(B-V) and spectral indices by removing the 2175-A interstellar absorption feature. The WN star color excesses derived are found to be in good agreement with those of Schmutz and Vacca (1991) and Koesterke et al. (1991). Significant heterogeneity in spectral index values was generally seen with any given subtype, but the groups consisting of the combined set of Galactic and LMC W-R stars, the separate WN and WC sequences, and the Galactic and LMC W-R stars all showed a striking and consistent Gaussian-like frequency distribution of values.

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