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The UV Variability of the WR Star HD 50896 – A One Day Recurrence Timescale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

N. St-Louis ,
A.J. Willis ,
L.J. Smith ,
C.D. Garmany  and
P.S. Conti
N. St-Louis
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.
A.J. Willis
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.
L.J. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, U.K.
C.D. Garmany
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado Boulder CO 80309, U.S.A.
P.S. Conti
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado Boulder CO 80309, U.S.A.

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The WN 5 star HD 50896 has been the subject of many variability studies in the optical. A period of 3.766 days is frequently associated with this variability although it is by no means clear whether it reflects, for example, binary motions or rotation.

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. 179 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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