Wolf-Rayet stars

WOLF-RAYET STARS SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY
Lastest update: 03/06/2013

The Wolf-Rayet stars are massive stars (more than 25 solar masses), in a advanced stage of evolution and ejecting at high speed a hot gas (winds of 2000 km/s typically). They have exceptional hot surface temperature, about 100.000 K. The spectrum presents strong emission widened lines. Wolf-Rayet stars have lost their atmospheres and have exposed their heavy cores. One finds there the signature of ions of helium, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen in the spectra.

There are 2 class Wolf-Rayet star: type WN where dominates the ions of helium and nitrogen and type WC where dominates the ions of carbon, oxygen and helium.

The Wolf-Rayet stars are very rare. One counts some hardly more than 150 in our galaxy. One will find below a list of bright Wolf-Rayet accessible since the northern hemisphere. The co-ordinates are into 2000.0 equinox.

WR HD R.A. Dec. Type V

  1     4004      0 43 28.4     +64 45 35     WN5   10.12
  2     6327      1 05 23.0     +60 25 19     WN2   11.43
  3     9974      1 38 55.7     +58 09 23     WN3   10.62
  4    16523      2 41 11.6     +56 43 50     WC5    9.98
  5    17638      2 52 11.7     +56 56 07     WC6   10.51
  6    50896      6 54 13.0     -23 55 42     WN5    6.74
  7    56925      7 18 29.2     -13 13 01     WN4   11.74
110   165688     18 07 57.0     -19 23 56     WN6    9.81
111   165763     18 08 28.5     -21 15 11     WC5    7.68
113   168206     18 19 07.4     -11 37 58     WC8    9.18
123   177230     19 03 59.0     -04 19 02     WN8   10.88
127   186943     19 46 15.9     +28 16 19     WN4   10.19
128   187282     19 48 34.2     +18 11 32     WN4   10.50
132   190002     20 01 41.8     +32 34 40     WC6   11.55
133   190918     20 05 57.3     +35 47 17     WN4    6.78
134   191765     20 10 14.2     +36 10 35     WN6    8.02
135   192103     20 11 53.5     +36 11 51     WC8    8.51
136   192163     20 12 06.5     +38 21 17     WN6    7.44
137   192641     20 14 31.8     +36 39 39     WC7    7.95
138   193077     20 17 00.0     +37 25 23     WN5    8.06
139   193576     20 19 32.4     +38 43 54     WN5    8.27
140   193793     20 20 28.1     +43 51 17     WC7    6.88
141   193928     20 21 31.8     +36 55 13     WN6    9.74
143   195177     20 28 24.3     +38 36 55     WC5   12.32
148   197406     20 41 21.6     +52 35 16     WN7   10.30
152   211564     22 16 34.0     +55 37 36     WN3   11.62
153   211853     22 18 45.6     +56 07 35     WN6    9.03
154   213049     22 27 17.7     +56 15 12     WC6   10.94
155   214419     22 36 54.0     +56 54 21     WN7    8.86
157   219460     23 15 12.6     +60 27 01     WN4   10.13

WR1	_wr1_20111017_897.fit
WR2	_wr2_20111017_923.fit
WR3	_wr3_20111020_919.fit
WR4	_wr4_20111020_978.fit
WR5	_wr5_20111021_017.fit
WR6	_wr6_20111021_103.fit
WR7	_wr7_20111021_123.fit
WR110	_wr110_20120621_012.fit
WR111	_wr111_20120625_925.fit
WR113	_wr113_20120625_976.fit
WR123	_wr123_20120703_053.fit
WR127	_wr127_20120626_019.fit
WR128	_wr128_20120626_071.fit
WR132	_wr132_20120627_032.fit
WR133	_wr133_20111017_792.fit
WR134	_wr134_20111017_779.fit
WR135	_wr135_20111017_826.fit
WR136	_wr136_20111017_819.fit
WR137	_wr137_20111017_760.fit
WR138	_wr138_20111017_833.fit
WR139	_wr139_20111021_747.fit
WR140	_wr140_20111021_774.fit _wr140_20120627_068.fit _wr140_20130606_039.fit
WR141	_wr141_20111021_788.fit
WR143	_wr143_20120627_091.fit
WR148	_wr148_20120628_948.fit
WR152	_wr152_20111021_819.fit
WR153	_wr153_20111021_854.fit
WR154	_wr154_20120628_973.fit
WR155	_wr155_20120629_025.fit
WR157	_wr157_20111021_868.fit

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