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A Large Sample of Emission-Line Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Their Location in the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Bruce Bohannan
Bruce Bohannan*
Affiliation:
Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences University of Colorado Box 391 Boulder, CO 80309 U.S.A.

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The paths that massive stars follow in their evolution can potentially be determined by studying a homogeneous collection of luminous stars. In this investigation, mass-losing stars in a galaxy are studied through a sample of 59 H alpha emission-line stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The most luminous, most massive stars in the LMC, like their counterparts in the Galaxy, are losing mass at a rate that significantly alters their spectroscopic appearance and that affects their evolution.

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Poster Papers 2
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 116: Luminous Stars and Associations in Galaxies , 1986 , pp. 227 - 228
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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