On the nature of candidate luminous blue variables in M 33
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On the nature of candidate luminous blue variables in M 33 ⋆
Luminous blue variables (LBVs) are a class of highly unstable stars that have been proposed to play a critical role in massive stellar evolution as well as being the progenitors of some of the most luminous supernovae known. However the physical processes underlying their characteristic instabilities are currently unknown. In order to provide observational constraints on this behaviour we have ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Astronomy & Astrophysics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0004-6361,1432-0746
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201118440