Classification of O Stars in the Yellow-Green: The Exciting Star VES 735

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1999-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9902116v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

25 pages, 3 tables, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in AJ, May 1999

Scientific paper

10.1086/300858

Acquiring data for spectral classification of heavily reddened stars using traditional criteria in the blue-violet region of the spectrum can be prohibitively time consuming using small to medium sized telescopes. One such star is the Vatican Observatory emission-line star VES 735, which we have found excites the HII region KR140. In order to classify VES 735, we have constructed an atlas of stellar spectra of O stars in the yellow-green (4800 - 5420 A). We calibrate spectral type versus the line ratio HeI 4922:HeII 5411, showing that this ratio should be useful for the classification of heavily reddened O stars associated with HII regions. Application to VES 735 shows that the spectral type is O8.5. The absolute magnitude suggests luminosity class V. Comparison of the rateof emission of ionizing photons and the bolometric luminosity of VES 735, inferred from radio and infrared measurements of the KR 140 region, to recent stellar models gives consistent evidence for a main sequence star of mass 25 M_sun and age less than a few million years with a covering factor 0.4 - 0.5 by the nebular material. Spectra taken in the red (6500 - 6700 A) show that the stellar H-alpha emission is double-peaked about the systemic velocity and slightly variable. H-beta is in absorption, so that the emission-line classification is ``(e)''. However, unlike the case of the more well known O(e) star Zeta Oph, the emission from VES 735 appears to be long-lived rather than episodic.

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