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The Impact of Polarimetry on Wolf-Rayet Star Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Regina E. Schulte-Ladbeck
Regina E. Schulte-Ladbeck*
Affiliation:
Space Astronomy Laboratory, University of Wisconsin - Madison 1150 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.

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Recent observational efforts have presented new results concerning (linear) polarization variations as a function of time as well as wavelength that have considerable impact on WR star models:

Polarimetry throughout orbital phase has provided inclinations of double-line spectroscopic binaries containing WR stars with O star companions, thus improving our understanding of the masses and evolution of WR binaries (Schulte-Ladbeck 1989, A.J. 97, 1471). New binary-model calculations were presented at the meeting and continuing comparison with observations should prove productive.

Type
Session III. Intrinsic Variability
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 143: Wolf–Rayet Stars and Interrelations with other Massive Stars in Galaxies , 1991 , pp. 183
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Copyright © Kluwer 1991