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An Interpretation of the WC Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Lindsey F. Smith*
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Greenbelt, Md., U.S.A.∗

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I wish to draw your attention to a (quite unexpected) property of the WC binaries. I believe that it gives us a clue to one of the parameters that controls the subclasses of the WR stars.

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Section VII
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1973 

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