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How massive the Wolf-Rayet stars are?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Virpi S. Niemelä
Virpi S. Niemelä*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomia y Fisica del Espacio, and Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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If the Wolf-Rayet stars are produced by the evolution of massive stars with mass loss (Paczynski 1967, Conti 1976) from 0 stars to WN stars and thereafter to WC stars, then we may expect to observe a correlation of decreasing mean masses in the same sense as the evolution.Information about the masses of TO stars are obtained from studies of binary systems with WR components. Table 1 presents the today available data for the WN type stars.

Type
Session V - Mass Loss and Stellar Evolution: Massive Stars
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 59: Effects of Mass Loss on Stellar Evolution , 1981 , pp. 307 - 310
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1981

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