Two Decades of Hypergiant Research

Details Two Decades of Hypergiant Research Two Decades of Hypergiant Research

Publishing date

2001-08-22

URL

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0108358v1

Science

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field

Astrophysics

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11 pages, 1 picture. Review on cool hypergiants, in honour of the 80th birthday of Prof. C. de Jager

Type

Scientific paper

Abstract

This article is a brief review of the research by Dr. C. de Jager and co-workers over the past twenty years into the physics of hypergiant atmospheres. Various important results on the microturbulence, mass-loss, circumstellar environment, atmospheric velocity fields, and the Yellow Evolutionary Void of these enigmatic stars are summarized. Aspects of recent developments and future work are also communicated.

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