Five WC9 stars discovered in the AAO/UKST H-alpha Survey

Details Five WC9 stars discovered in the AAO/UKST H-alpha Survey Five WC9 stars discovered in the AAO/UKST H-alpha Survey

2005-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508187v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.363:857-866,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 8 figures. Accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09487.x

We report the discovery of 5 massive Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars resulting from a programme of follow-up spectroscopy of candidate emission line stars in the AAO/UKST Southern Galactic Plane H-alpha survey. The 6195-6775 angstrom spectra of the stars are presented and discussed. A WC9 class is assigned to all 5 stars through comparison of their spectra with those of known late-type WC stars, bringing the known total number of Galactic WC9 stars to 44. Whilst three of the five WC9 stars exhibit near infrared (NIR) excesses characteristic of hot dust emission -- as seen in the great majority of known WC9 stars -- we find that two of the stars show no discernible evidence of such excesses. This increases the number of known WC9 stars without NIR excesses to 7. Reddenings and distances for all 5 stars are estimated.

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