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Massive stars burning helium: the numbers of WR stars and red supergiants in galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A. Maeder
A. Maeder*
Affiliation:
Geneva Observatory, CH-1290 Sauverny

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We have calculated evolutionary models of massive stars in the range 15-120 Mʘ from the zero-age sequence up to the end of the carbon burning stage (Maeder, 1981). Three sets of models with different mass loss rates Ṁ have been computed; the adopted parametrisation of Ṁ is fitted on the observations and thus the expression for Ṁ differs according to the location of the stars in the HRD.

In this short note we concentrate on the location of the He-burning stars in the HRD. The helium burning phase, which lasts 8 to 10% of the MS phase, is spent mainly as red supergiants (RSG) and as WR stars (note that for low mass loss, the time spent as A-G supergiants becomes longer).

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. 283 - 287
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1981

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