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Wolf-Rayet Stars: Observations, Physics, Evolution

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Wolf-Rayet Phenomena
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    Chapter 2 The Effective Temperatures of Early Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 3 The Galactic Distribution of Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 4 Line Strengths in WN Stars
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    Chapter 5 Hot Mantles, Moderate Photospheres for Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 6 Corrections for Hydrostatic Atmospheric Models: Radii and Effective Temperatures of Wolf Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 7 Preliminary Results of a New Study of the Intrinsic Properties of Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 8 Radio Observations of HD 193793
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    Chapter 9 Near-Infrared Photometry of Southern Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 10 Infrared (1.4 – 4.1μm) Spectra of Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 11 The Infrared Recombination-Line Spectra of Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 12 The Chemical Composition of the Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 13 Chemical Composition of Wolf-Rayet Stars: Abundant Evidence for Anomalies
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    Chapter 14 H/He Ratios for WN Stars in the LMC and the Galaxy
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    Chapter 15 The C/N Ratio in WN and WC Stars
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    Chapter 16 On the Chemical Abundances, Evolutionary Stage and Bolometric Magnitude of WR Stars
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    Chapter 17 Absolute Spectrophotometry of Wolf-Rayet Stars: Are the Colors the Same?
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    Chapter 18 An Explanation of the Radio Flux Mystery of HD 192163 and Empirical Models for WN Stars
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    Chapter 19 Carbon Abundance in WC Stars
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    Chapter 20 Synthetic Spectra for WN Stars
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    Chapter 21 Carbon Abundance in the WC 11 Star CPD -56°8032
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    Chapter 22 Observations of Mass Loss from OB and Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 23 Theories for the Winds from Wolf Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 24 The Theory of Radiation Driven Stellar Winds and the Wolf-Rayet Phenomenon
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    Chapter 25 The Influence of the Ratio of Total to Selective Extinction on the Determination of the Mass Loss Rate of Wolf Rayet Stars from Infrared Excess Measurements
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    Chapter 26 On the Properties of Wolf-Rayet Stars and Their Mass Loss
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    Chapter 27 A Hot Corona Model for O-Stars and WR Stars
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    Chapter 28 Radio Continuum Measurements of Mass Loss from Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 29 Radio Emission from WR Stars
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    Chapter 30 IR Spectroscopy of WN Stars
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    Chapter 31 The Near Infrared Properties of Selected WN Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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    Chapter 32 Near Infrared Observations of Galactic WN Stars
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    Chapter 33 Line Formation in Winds with Enhanced Equatorial Mass-Loss Rates and Its Application to the Wolf-Rayet Star HD 50896
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    Chapter 34 Wolf-Rayet Stars with Massive Companions
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    Chapter 35 Wolf-Rayet Stars with Compact Companions
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    Chapter 36 The Iron Curtain of WC9 Stars
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    Chapter 37 A Spectroscopic Search for Duplicity among a Complete Sample of Northern Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 38 Is HD 164270 a Long-Period Eclipsing Binary?
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    Chapter 39 A Spectral Study of HD 50896
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    Chapter 40 Observations of New Wolf-Rayet Binaries
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    Chapter 41 The Velocity Field of S308. The Ring Nebula Around the WN 5 Star HD 50896
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    Chapter 42 Spectral Variations of Theta Muscae (WC 6 + 0 9.5 I) in the Ultraviolet
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    Chapter 43 The Wolf-Rayet Eclipsing Binary HD 5980 in the Small Magellanic Cloud
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    Chapter 44 The Evolution of Massive Stars: The Production of “Single” WR Stars
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    Chapter 45 The Evolution of Massive Stars — The Production of Binary WR Stars
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    Chapter 46 Gradients in Supergiant and WR Stars Across the Galactic Plane
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    Chapter 47 On the Expected Frequency of WR + Compact Star Systems
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    Chapter 48 Properties of the Scenario for the Formation of WR Stars as Post-Red Supergiants
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    Chapter 49 Origin and Evolution of Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 50 The Massive Eclipsing Binary RY Scuti
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    Chapter 51 The Wo Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 52 The on Stars: A Wider Spectroscopic Definition
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    Chapter 53 On the Structure and Evolution of the OB-Companions in Wolf-Rayet Binaries
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    Chapter 54 The Occurrence of Different Wolf-Rayet Phases in Massive Close Binaries
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    Chapter 55 The Various Scenarios Leading to WR Stars: Their Relative Importance and the Role of Mixing
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    Chapter 56 Low Mass Wolf-Rayet Stars: Theory
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    Chapter 57 Subluminous Wolf-Rayet Stars: Observations
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    Chapter 58 The Peculiar Binary System HD 45166 (SdO+B8V?)
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    Chapter 59 The UV Spectrum of the Central Star of NGC 40
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    Chapter 60 A Reclassification of WC and “O VI” Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae, and Comparison with Population I WC Stars
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    Chapter 61 A New Search for Nebulae Surrounding Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 62 Ring Nebulae Associated with Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 63 Ring Nebulae Around WC6 Stars: NGC 6357 Around HD 157 504
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    Chapter 64 Kinematics of the Ring-Shaped Nebula N206 in the LMC
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    Chapter 65 WR Stars with Ring Nebulae
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    Chapter 66 IUE Observations of the WN-C Star HD 62910
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    Chapter 67 Observations and the Wolf-Rayet Evolutionary Scenario
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    Chapter 68 Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Magellanic Clouds: Spectroscopic Binaries and Masses
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    Chapter 69 Absolute Magnitudes of Wolf-Rayet Stars: The WN3 and WN4 Sub-Classes in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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    Chapter 70 Near Infrared Observations of Magellanic WN Stars
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    Chapter 71 The First Detection of Wolf-Rayet Stars in M31
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    Chapter 72 Wolf-Rayet Stars in Open Clusters and Associations
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    Chapter 73 The Wolf-Rayet Stars in 30 Doradus
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    Chapter 74 Spectra of the Wolf-Rayet Stars in 30 Doradus
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    Chapter 75 NGC 604 — A Giant H II Region Dominated by Many WR Stars
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    Chapter 76 Wolf-Rayet Stars Associated to Giant Regions of Star Formation
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    Chapter 77 The Central Object of the 30 Doradus Nebula, a Supermassive Star
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    Chapter 78 Wolf-Rayet Stars Featured in Emission-Line Galaxies
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    Chapter 79 Comments on the Significance of the Positions of Population I Wolf-Rayet Stars in the HR Diagram
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    Chapter 80 Time-Dependent X-ray Observations of Wolf-Rayet Binaries with 0-Type and with Suspected Compact Companions
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    Chapter 81 Lines Profile Variations and Binarity in Wolf-Rayet Stars
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    Chapter 82 X-Rays from Wolf-Rayet Stars Observed by the Einstein Observatory
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    Chapter 83 Summary of Symposium
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Chapter title
The Wo Wolf-Rayet Stars
Chapter number 51
Book title
Wolf-Rayet Stars: Observations, Physics, Evolution
Published by
Springer Netherlands, February 1982
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-7910-9_51
Book ISBNs
978-9-02-771470-1, 978-9-40-097910-9
Authors

M. J. Barlow, D. G. Hummer

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