Spectrophotometry of the Wolf-Rayet Star γ_{2} Velorum.
Abstract
The brightest WoIf-Rayet star in the sky, the more luminous component of the binary Velorum, is also of interest because it is one of the bluest stars known and has been measured in the rocket ultraviolet. Measurements of the energy distribution in the continuum and of the intensities of the brighter lines, due to helium, carbon, and oxygen, in various ionization stages, yield excitation temperatures dependent on the ionization stage, and a color temperature near 30000 K.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- July 1964
- DOI:
- 10.1086/147905
- Bibcode:
- 1964ApJ...140..167A