New observations of ultraviolet variability in Wolf-Rayet stars.
Abstract
Observations of ultraviolet variability in Wolf-Rayet stars have been made with the ANS satellite Ultraviolet Photometer Experiment. Significant variations are detected in several of the observed stars, the timescale of the variability ranging from a few minutes to several months.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- June 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/183.4.605
- Bibcode:
- 1978MNRAS.183..605B
- Keywords:
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- Hot Stars;
- Light Curve;
- Satellite Observation;
- Stellar Spectra;
- Ultraviolet Spectra;
- Variable Stars;
- Wolf-Rayet Stars;
- Astronomical Netherlands Satellite;
- Binary Stars;
- Line Spectra;
- Mass Transfer;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Stellar Luminosity;
- Astrophysics;
- Spectrophotometry:Wolf-Rayet Stars;
- UV Radiation:Wolf-Rayet Stars