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A Spectroscopic Search for Hot (B-Type) Post-AGB Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

E.S. Conlon*
Affiliation:
Department of Pure and Applied Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland

Abstract

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At Queen's University, we have been undertaking a spectroscopic programme to elucidate the nature of faint blue stars at high galactic latitudes. We have identified approximately 50 that appear to spectroscopically identical (even at high resolution and signal-to-noise) to normal young Population I B-type stars in the galactic disc. However, we have also found seven faint objects () that were previously classified as Population I on the basis of photometry and/or low resolution spectroscopy; careful model atmosphere analyses of high resolution spectra now indicate that they have non-Population I compositions. Their derived atmospheric parameters are coincident with theoretical post-AGB evolutionary tracks and thus together with their peculiar composition, they would appear to be hot evolved post-AGB objects.

Type
IV. Planetary Nebulae Connection: Evolution from the AGB
Copyright
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