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Summary of Problems and Conclusions on the Nature and Physical Structure of Wolf-Rayet Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Anne B. Underhill*
Affiliation:
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, Md., U.S.A.

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The Wolf-Rayet stars were the subject of a symposium held at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, Colorado in June 1968. Here there was considerable discussion about whether one should talk about a class of objects called ‘Wolf-Rayet stars’ or whether it was more appropriate to talk about something called the ‘Wolf-Rayet phenomenon’ (Gebbie and Thomas, 1968). The point of view taken in this review is that it is more advantageous for obtaining an understanding of Wolf-Rayet objects to collate the available material under the broad category Wolf-Rayet phenomenon than to attempt to demonstrate that there is a homogeneous set of stars which can be called Wolf-Rayet stars and which occupy a significant stage in the evolution of stars, this stage being traversed routinely by all stars of a certain range of mass.

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Section VIII
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1973 

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