Discovery of a luminous blue variable with an ejection nebula near the quintuplet cluster

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 713, Issue 1 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Mauerhan, J C ^a   Morris, M R ^b   Cotera, A ^c   Dong, H ^d   Wang, Q D ^d   Stolovy, S R ^a   Lang, C ^e   Glass, I S ^f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Infrared: stars; Stars: emission line, Be; Stars: evolution; Stars: mass loss; Stars: variables: general; Supergiants

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950211238     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/713/1/L33     Document Type: Article

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