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Is AS 431 a Superluminous WR Star?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

D. J. Stickland ,
C. Lloyd  and
A. J. Willis
D. J. Stickland
Affiliation:
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, U.K.
C. Lloyd
Affiliation:
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, U.K.
A. J. Willis
Affiliation:
University College, London, U.K.

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The recent study by Caillault et al. (1985) has shown the emission-line star AS 431 (= WR 147) to be a strong X-ray source and moderately strong radio emitter. Combining optical, near-infrared and radio data, they deduced that its mass loss rate was ∼ 4 × 10−4 M⊙yr−1, an order of magnitude greater than is normal for WR stars. They also suggested that it would show up in the IRAS survey and that such data would help to elucidate whether its extreme reddening had a significant circumstellar component. To investigate this possibility and to study the general properties of the object, we have raided the IRAS Point Source Catalogue.

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Poster Papers 2
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 116: Luminous Stars and Associations in Galaxies , 1986 , pp. 229 - 230
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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