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MWC656: A Be+BH or a Be+sdO?
Th. Rivinius, R. Klement, S. D. Chojnowski +3
MWC656 has been reported as classical Be star with a black hole companion. Revisited spectral variability properties render this unlikely, with a hot subdwarf more probable.
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Spectroscopic Line Modeling of the Fastest Rotating O-type Stars
Katherine Shepard, Douglas R. Gies, Lex Kaper +1
We present a spectroscopic analysis of the most rapidly rotating stars currently known, VFTS 102 ( km s; O9: Vnnne+) and VFTS 285 ($v_{e} \sin i =…
astro-ph.SR2022★ 1 cited
Mass Transfer as an Explanation for the Lifetime-Travel Time Discrepancy in IT Librae
Peter Wysocki, Douglas Gies, Katherine Shepard +2
The eclipsing binary IT Librae is an unusual system of two B-type stars that is situated about 1 kpc above the galactic plane. The binary was probably ejected from its birthplace i…