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An IRAS-based search for new dusty WCL Wolf-Rayet stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Martin Cohen
Martin Cohen*
Affiliation:
Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.

Abstract

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I have examined all InfraRed Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) data relevant to the 173 galactic Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars in an updated catalogue provided by van der Hucht (priv. comm.), including the 13 stars newly discovered by Shara et al. (1991). Using the exact coordinates given in these lists, I have examined the IRAS Point Source Catalog (PSC), the Faint Source Catalog, Faint Source Reject Catalog, and generated 1-dimensional spatial profiles (“ADDSCAN”s), and 2-dimensional full-resolution images (“FRESCO”s). The goal was to assemble the best set of observed IRAS colour indices for different WR types, in particular for known dusty WCL objects. These colour indices define zones in the IRAS colour-colour plane. By searching the PSC for otherwise unassociated sources that satisfy these colours, I have identified potential new WR candidates, too faint to have been recognized in previous optical searches. I have extracted these candidates' IRAS Low Resolution Spectrometer (LRS) data and compared the spectra with the highly characteristic LRS shape for known dusty WCL stars. Any surviving candidates must now be examined by optical spectroscopy. This work represents a much more rigorous and exhaustive version of the LRS study that identified IRAS 17380-3031 (WR98a) as the first new WR (WC9) star discovered by IRAS (Cohen et al. 1991).

Keywords

stars: Wolf-RayetWCLIRAS colourscircumstellar dust
Type
Session VI - Dust formation near Wolf-Rayet stars and other circumstellar phenomena
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 163: Wolf-Rayet Stars: Binaries, Colliding Winds, Evolution , 1995 , pp. 359 - 362
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

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