A preliminary look at the empirical mass distribution of hot B subdwarf stars

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 539, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fontaine, G ^a   Brassard, P ^a   Charpinet, S ^b   Green, E M ^c   Randall, S K ^d   Van Grootel, V ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b IRAP   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^f FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

stars: fundamental parameters; stars: oscillations; subdwarfs

Indexed keywords

ASTEROSEISMOLOGY; BINARY STAR; CLASSICAL METHODS; ECLIPSING BINARIES; LIGHT CURVES; MASS DISTRIBUTION; MEDIAN VALUE; STARS: OSCILLATIONS; STARS:FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS; STELLAR EVOLUTIONS; SUBDWARF STARS; SUBDWARFS;

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS;

STARS;

EID: 84857157163     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118220     Document Type: Article

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