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A Search for Wolf-Rayet Stars in Giant Extragalactic Bursts of Star Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Alison W. Campbell  and
Linda J. Smith
Alison W. Campbell
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy The Observatories Cambridge CB3 OHA U.K.
Linda J. Smith
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy University College London Gower St. London WC1E 6BT U.K.

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It is well known that some giant extragalactic star-forming regions contain WR stars. D'Odorico, Massey, Rosa and coworkers found many examples in nearby galaxies of giant HII regions whose spectra show that they contain WN, and occasionally, WC stars. The dwarf emission-line galaxies He 2–10 (Allen et al. 1976) and Tol 3 (Kunth & Sargent 1981) have a strong broad emission feature near HeII 4686Å; in the latter object ∼150 WN stars are required to explain the observed equivalent width.

Type
Poster Papers 4
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 116: Luminous Stars and Associations in Galaxies , 1986 , pp. 499 - 501
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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