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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
First reported at the IAU Colloquium No. 53 on White Dwarfs (McGraw et al. 1979), PG 1159-035 (GW Vir) is the prototype of a new class of very hot, pulsating, pre-white dwarf stars. It shows complicated, nonradial pulsation modes which have been studied exhaustively, both observationally and theoretically. The effective temperature has been crudely estimated as 100,000 K with log g ~ 7 (Wesemael, Green and Liebert 1985, hereafter WGL).
Guest Observers with the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) Observatory, which is sponsored and operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the European Space Agency and the Science Research Council of the United Kingdom.
Optical data reported here were obtained at the Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) Observatory, a facility operated jointly by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University of Arizona.