Main-Sequence Broadening, Be Stars, and Stellar Rotation in h and χ Persei

Autor: Christoffel Waelkens, J. Denoyelle, Conny Aerts
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Pulsation, Rotation and Mass Loss in Early-Type Stars ISBN: 9780792330455
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-1030-3_42
Popis: The double cluster h and χ Persei is one of the richest clusters containing early-B stars, and therefore is important for observational and theoretical studies on the fundamental parameters of massive stars. The colour-magnitude diagram of the double cluster shows an important scatter (see Figure 1). It has long been known that h and χ Persei are extremely rich in Be stars (Slettebak 1968). Our previous contention (Waelkens et al. 1990) that the large-amplitude variable stars we discovered are also Be stars, could be confirmed for a few objects. Rotation velocities for stars in h and χ Persei are usually high, which is not surprising in view of the large fraction of Be stars.
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