New Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars, and candidates. An annex to The VIIth Catalogue of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars
Abstract
This paper gathers, from the literature and private communication, 72 new Galactic Population I Wolf-Rayet stars and 17 candidate WCLd stars, recognized and/or discovered after the publication of The VIIth Catalogue of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars. This brings the total number of known Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars to 298, of which 24 (8%) are in open cluster Westerlund 1, and 60 (20%) are in open clusters near the Galactic Center.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1051/0004-6361:20065819
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0609008
- Bibcode:
- 2006A&A...458..453V
- Keywords:
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- stars: Wolf-Rayet;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 10 pages. A&