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New R Coronae Borealis Stars in the LMC Discovered in the MACHO Photometry Database

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Geoffrey C. Clayton
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
D. Kilkenny
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, P.O. Box 9, Observatory 7935, South Africa
D. L. Welch
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada

Abstract

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An extensive search has been made in the MACHO photometry database for new R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars in the LMC. Only three such stars were known previously. Nine new LMC RCB stars have been spectroscopically confirmed so far.

Type
Part 2. Variability of High-Luminosity Stars
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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