A serendipitous survey for variability amongst the massive stellar population of Westerlund 1 * **

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 514, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

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

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IBM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Stars: evolution; Stars: variables: general; Supergiants

Indexed keywords

ASPHERICITY; BINARY INTERACTIONS; BINARY STAR; DATA SETS; EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAY; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; LUMINOSITY CLASS; LUMINOUS BLUE VARIABLES; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; MASSIVE STARS; PATHFINDING; PHOTOMETRIC DATA; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SECULAR EVOLUTION; SPECTRAL TYPES; STARS: EVOLUTION; STELLAR EVOLUTIONS; STELLAR POPULATIONS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TIME-SCALES; WIND STRUCTURE;

LUMINANCE; PHOTOMETRY;

STARS;

EID: 77953019412     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200913820     Document Type: Article

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