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About the Luminous Blue Variable He3-519

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2011

Anthony Hervé
Affiliation:
GAPHE, AGO, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 17, Bât. B5c, 4000 Liège, Belgium email: herve@astro.ulg.ac.be
Jean-Claude Bouret
Affiliation:
LAM, 38 Frédéric Joliot-Curie, 13388 Marseille, cedex 13, France email: jean-claude.bouret@oamp.fr
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Abstract

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Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs) are massive stars, in a transition phase, from being O-type stars and rapidly becoming Wolf-Rayet objects. LBVs possess powerful stellar winds, high luminosities and show photometric and spectroscopic variability. We present the stellar and wind parameters of He3-519 obtained by the modeling of UVES observations with the model atmosphere code CMFGEN. We compare our results to previous studies in order to find mid-time scale variability of the stellar parameters and finally, we use stellar evolution models to determine the evolutionary status of this star.

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