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Is There Mass Loss in B Canis Majoris Stars?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Janet Rountree Lesh
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, Goddard Space Flight Center
Alan H. Karp
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College

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The purpose of this communication is to show that one possible explanation for the asymmetric line profiles observed in β Canis Majoris stars may be the presence of a stellar wind superimposed on a radial or nonradial pulsation.

Type
Part III: Evolved Stars
Copyright
Copyright © Veröff. Der Remeis-Sterwarte 1977

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