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Observational Aspects of Stellar Evolution in the Upper HRD

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Claus Leitherer
Claus Leitherer*
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Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218. Affiliated with the Astrophysics Division of the Space Science Department of the European Space Agency

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Observational evidence strongly favors an evolutionary relation between Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars and stars with masses above ~ 10 M⊙. The galactic distribution of WR stars closely resembles the distribution of O stars both in the z-direction as well as in the spiral-arm pattern (Hidayat, Admiranto, and van der Hucht 1984, van der Hucht et al. 1988, Conti and Vacca 1990). Lundström and Stenholm (1984) found that the surface density of W R stars increases with decreasing distance from OB associations as well as from young open clusters. The fraction of WR stars in clusters turns out to be about the same as that of O stars. A large number of extragalactic WR stars is situated in giant H II regions, which also contain high numbers of very massive 0 stars (see, e.g., Walborn 1990 for 30 Doradus; Drissen, Moffat, and Shara 1990 for M33). Many WR stars are members of binary systems with well established parameters so that their masses can be determined directly. In several cases, WR-stax masses of M ≥ 10 M⊙ have been derived (Massey 1981, St.-Louis et al. 1987, Schulte-Ladbeck 1989).

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Session VII. Evolution
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 143: Wolf–Rayet Stars and Interrelations with other Massive Stars in Galaxies , 1991 , pp. 465 - 478
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Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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