The WR/LBV system HD 5980: wind-velocity - brightness correlations

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Jul 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011iaus..272..511k&link_type=abstract

Active OB stars: structure, evolution, mass loss, and critical limits, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU

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Binaries: Eclipsing, Stars: Wolf-Rayet, Stars: Individual (Hd 5980)

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The massive eclipsing system HD 5980 in the Small Magellanic Cloud presented sudden ~1-3 mag eruptive events in 1993-1994, the nature of which is still unexplained. We recently showed that these brief eruptions occurred at the beginning of an extended high state of activity which is characterized by large emission-line intensities and that this high state is currently ending (Koenigsberger et al. 2010). Star A, the more massive member of the 19-day binary, is responsible for the spectacular spectral variations observed over the past 3 decades (see Figure 1). It has a He-enriched stellar wind and is over-luminous for its mass, implying an advanced evolutionary state (Koenigsberger et al. 1998). Data obtained over the past 3 decades show that Star A's wind speed slowed down as the system brightened. Also present in these data is a correlated increase in emission-line strength, visual and UV brigthness. The latter suggests that the high activity state in HD 5980 may be attributed to a bolometric luminosity increase, consistent with the results of Drissen et al. (2001). Hence, HD 5980 may be providing the important clues needed for understanding the behavior of other luminous blue variables and for understainding the evolutionary transition between massive O-type stars and Wolf-Rayet stars.

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