Wolf, Charles J E (1827-1918)
Abstract
French astronomers Charles Wolf and GEORGES RAYET, using the 40 cm Foucault telescope of the Paris Observatory, visually observed the spectra in 1867 of several eighth magnitude stars in Cygnus before the systematic use of photographic plates and found very broad emission lines. The `bands' were originally thought to be hydrocarbon molecules. The stars became known as Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars....
- Publication:
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2000
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- Bibcode:
- 2000eaa..bookE4101.
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- History and Archaeoastronomy;
- Biographies