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Two Faint WC Stars near 30 Doradus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

D.H. Morgan  and
A.R. Good
D.H. Morgan
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ
A.R. Good
Affiliation:
Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ

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“Wolf-Rayet stars in the LMC: how faint do they go?” That was the title of a recent paper by Massey and Conti (1983) who found that the faintest WN star in Breysacher's (1981) catalogue of LMC WR stars has mv = 17.1. The faintest WC star in that catalogue is Br74 which has mv = 15.6. We have now detected two faint WC stars at mv 18.6, three magnitudes fainter than Br74.

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Poster Papers 3
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 116: Luminous Stars and Associations in Galaxies , 1986 , pp. 403 - 404
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

References

Breysacher, J., 1981. Astron. Astrophys. Suppl., 43, 203.Google Scholar
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Morgan, D.H. and Good, A.R., 1985. Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc., In press.Google Scholar