Isolated wolf-rayet stars and O supergiants in the galactic center region identified via paschen-α excess

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 725, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 188-199

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

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: center; Infrared: stars; Line Be; Stars: emission; Stars: Wolf Rayet; Supergiants; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650127302     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/725/1/188     Document Type: Article

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