R4 and its circumstellar nebula: Evidence for a binary merger?

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1352-1358

  Pasquali, A ^a   Nota, A ^b   Langer, N ^c   Schulte Ladbeck, R E ^d   Clampin, M ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Circumstellar matter; Stars: variables: other; Supergiants

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007541173     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/301257     Document Type: Article

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