The yellow hypergiants HR 8752 and rho Cassiopeiae near the evolutionary border of instability

Details The yellow hypergiants HR 8752 and rho Cassiopeiae near the evolutionary border of instability The yellow hypergiants HR 8752 and rho Cassiopeiae near the evolutionary border of instability

1999-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9908308v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages including 3 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/312283

High-resolution near-ultraviolet spectra of the yellow hypergiants HR 8752 and rho Cassiopeiae indicate high effective temperatures placing both stars near the T_eff border of the ``yellow evolutionary void''. At present, the temperature of HR 8752 is higher than ever. For this star we found Teff=7900+-200 K, whereas rho Cassiopeiae has Teff=7300+-200 K. Both, HR 8752 and rho Cassiopeiae have developed strong stellar winds with Vinf ~ 120 km/s and Vinf ~ 100 km/s, respectively. For HR 8752 we estimate an upper limit for the spherically symmetric mass-loss of 6.7X10^{-6}M_solar/yr. Over the past decades two yellow hypergiants appear to have approached an evolutionary phase, which has never been observed before. We present the first spectroscopic evidence of the blueward motion of a cool super/hypergiant on the HR diagram.

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