WR 20a: A massive cornerstone binary system comprising two extreme early-type stars
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We present a high-precision I-band light curve for the Wolf-Rayet binary WR 20a, obtained as a sub-project of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Rauw et al. have recently presented spectroscopy for this system, strongly suggesting extremely large minimum masses of 70.7± 4.0 M⊙ and 68.8± 3.8 M⊙ for the component stars of the system, with the exact values depending strongly on the peri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Astronomy & Astrophysics
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0004-6361,1432-0746
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20040150