The formation of Wolf-Rayet stars in the SMC is not dominated by mass transfer
Abstract
We analyzed spectra of all Wolf-Rayet stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We find that, unlike predicted, mass-transfer in binaries is not needed to explain their formation.
- Publication:
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The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars
- Pub Date:
- November 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921317001995
- Bibcode:
- 2017IAUS..329..445S