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astro-ph2006★ 36 cited
Bringing VY Canis Majoris Down to Size: An Improved Determination of Its Effective Tempeature
Philip Massey, Emily M. Levesque, Bertrand Plez
The star VY CMa is a late-type M supergiant with many peculiarities, mostly related to the intense circumstellar environment due to the star's high mass-loss rate. Claims have been…
astro-ph2006★ 219 cited
The Effective Temperatures and Physical Properties of Magellanic Cloud Red Supergiants: The Effects of Metallicity
Emily M. Levesque, Philip Massey, K. A. G. Olsen +3
We use the MARCS stellar atmosphere to derive the physical properties of 36 red supergiants (RSGs) in the LMC, and 39 RSGs in the SMC using moderate-resolution optical spectrophoto…