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Searching for Luminous Blue Variables in nearby galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Nicole L. King ,
René A.M. Walterbos  and
Jay S. Gallagher
Nicole L. King
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Department 4500, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
René A.M. Walterbos
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Department 4500, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
Jay S. Gallagher
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, 475 N Charter St, Madison, WI 53706-1582, USA

Abstract

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We have identified five new candidate LBVs in the NE half of M 31 and provide age limits for these objects through the color-magnitude diagrams of their potential parent OB associations. We note that three of the five candidates are not in OB associations nor are they in prominent H II regions.

Type
Part 1. Basic observational properties of Wolf-Rayet stars and other hot massive stars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 193: Wolf-Rayet Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies , 1999 , pp. 73 - 74
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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