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Discrete Components in OB and Be Stars: The Shocking Truth?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

Paul K. Barker*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 3K7, Canada

Abstract

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Preliminary calculations of the absorption profiles produced if multiple shells are ejected from the photosphere into a non-monotonic wind, suggest that this geometrical model can reproduce a wide variety of simple and complex profiles observed in the discrete components in OB and Be stars.

Type
IV. Models
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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