Those Troublesome Wolf-Rayet Stars

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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The Wolf-Rayet stars are among the more spectacular in our Galaxy. Not only are they some of the hottest and most massive stars known, but they also stand out as strong emission-line objects. With the aim of improving their usefulness for the study of the structure of the Galaxy, two Swedish astronomers, Drs. Ingemar Lundström and Björn Stenholm from the Lund Observatory, have initiated a study of the absolute magnitudes of WolfRayet stars. Dr. Stenholm writes about the observations at ESO and how it now appears that most (if not all) Wolf-Rayet stars are in fact double stars:

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