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Dust formation in, and the structure of wolf-rayet stellar winds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

K.A. van der Hucht ,
P. M. Williams  and
P.S. Thé
K.A. van der Hucht
Affiliation:
SPON Space Research Utrecht
P. M. Williams
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory Edinburgh
P.S. Thé
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute “Anton Pannekoek”

Abstract

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An infrared photometric survey of all 40 known galactic WC7-10 stars shows that around most of them hot amorphous carbon is condensing continuously at distances of about 8500 R⊙, well within the ionized stellar winds around these stars. Typical dust production rates are of the order of 10−7 M⊙/yr.

Type
Mass Loss from Hot Stars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 122: Circumstellar Matter , 1987 , pp. 455 - 456
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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