Spectroscopic monitoring of the luminous blue variable Westerlund1-243 from 2002 to 2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 507, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1597-1611

  Ritchie, B W ^a,b   Clark, J S ^a   Negueruela, I ^c   Najarro, F ^d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IBM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^d CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Outflows; Stars: evolution; Stars: individual: W243; Stars: variables: general; Stars: winds; Supergiants

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION LINES; DAVIDSON; EMISSION FEATURES; EMISSION LINES; FORBIDDEN LINES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LUMINOUS BLUE VARIABLES; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; MASS LOSS RATE; MASS-LOSS; NEAR INFRARED SPECTRA; NON-LTE; OUTFLOWS-STARS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPECTRAL EVOLUTION; SPECTRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SPECTRAL TYPES; SPECTROSCOPIC MONITORING; STARBURSTS; STARS: VARIABLES: GENERAL; TIME VARYING; TIME-AVERAGED; TIME-SCALES;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; HELIUM; IRON COMPOUNDS; MODELS; OXYGEN; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; STARS;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 70849121530     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912986     Document Type: Article

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