A comprehensive variability study of the enigmatic WN8 stars - Final results

Details A comprehensive variability study of the enigmatic WN8 stars - Final results A comprehensive variability study of the enigmatic WN8 stars - Final results

Mar 1998

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998mnras.294..642m&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 294, p. 642

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

46

Sky Surveys (Astronomy), Variable Stars, Stellar Cores, Stellar Winds, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Statistical Analysis, Stellar Activity, Data Processing, Tables (Data)

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As a conclusion of our all-sky variability survey of the 'enigmatic' variable WN8 stars, we have carried out coordinated multisite photometric and spectroscopic observations of WN8 stars in 1989 and 1994-1995. We confirm the leading role of the stellar core in restructuring the whole wind. This emerges as a statistical trend: the higher the level of the continuum (i.e., core) light variations, the higher the variability of the P Cygni edges of the optical emission lines. However, the form of the correlation between the light and profile variations is generally different for each individual star. The high level of activity of WN8 stars may be supported/induced by pulsational instability.

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