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The Physical Parameters of Four WC-type Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Evidence of Evolution*
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WoS WOS:000741118600001
Scopus SCOPUS_ID:85123527847
DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/AC3426
Año 2022
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Abstract



We present a spectral analysis of four Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) WC-type Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars (BAT99-8, BAT99-9, BAT99-11, and BAT99-52) to shed light on two evolutionary questions surrounding massive stars. The first is: are WO-type WR stars more oxygen enriched than WC-type stars, indicating further chemical evolution, or are the strong high-excitation oxygen lines in WO-type stars an indication of higher temperatures. This study will act as a baseline for answering the question of where WO-type stars fall in WR evolution. Each star's spectrum, extending from 1100 to 25000 angstrom, was modeled using cmfgen to determine the star's physical properties such as luminosity, mass-loss rate, and chemical abundances. The oxygen abundance is a key evolutionary diagnostic, and with higher resolution data and an improved stellar atmosphere code, we found the oxygen abundance to be up to a factor of 5 lower than that of previous studies. The second evolutionary question revolves around the formation of WR stars: do they evolve by themselves or is a close companion star necessary for their formation? Using our derived physical parameters, we compared our results to the Geneva single-star evolutionary models and the Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis (BPASS) binary evolutionary models. We found that both the Geneva solar-metallicity models and BPASS LMC-metallicity models are in agreement with the four WC-type stars, while the Geneva LMC-metallicity models are not. Therefore, these four WC4 stars could have been formed either via binary or single-star evolution.

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Astrophysical Journal 0004-637X

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Ord. Autor Género Institución - País
1 Aadland, Erin Mujer No Arizona Univ - Estados Unidos
Lowell Observ - Estados Unidos
Northern Arizona University - Estados Unidos
Lowell Observatory - Estados Unidos
2 Massey, Phil Hombre No Arizona Univ - Estados Unidos
Lowell Observ - Estados Unidos
Northern Arizona University - Estados Unidos
Lowell Observatory - Estados Unidos
3 Hillier, D. John Hombre Univ Pittsburgh - Estados Unidos
University of Pittsburgh - Estados Unidos
4 MORRELL, NIDIA IRENE Mujer Observatorio Las Campanas - Chile
Las Campanas Observatory - Chile
Carnegie Observ - Chile

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National Science Foundation
STScI
Lowell Pre-doctoral Fellowship by the BF Foundation
Slipher Society award
NASA/ADAP grant

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Northern Arizona University and Lowell Observatory sit at the base of mountains sacred to tribes throughout the region. We honor their past, present, and future generations, who have lived here for millennia and will forever call this place home. The optical and NIR spectra used in this study were obtained at Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), and we are grateful to the continued support of the Carnegie and Arizona Time Allocation Committees for our work. We are also grateful to the excellent support and technical assistance we also receive at LCO. This work was partially supported through the NASA/ADAP grant 80NSSC18K0729, through the National Science Foundation grant AST-1612874, and through the STScI grant HST-GO-13781. Computer resources were also supported through a Slipher Society award. E.A. acknowledges the gracious support of her Lowell Pre-doctoral Fellowship by the BF Foundation. We also thank Kathryn Neugent for help both with some of the observing proposals and for taking some of the data used here. The authors are grateful to Jan Eldridge and Andreas Sander for useful suggestions on a previous version of this manuscript. We thank our anonymous reviewer for the helpful feedback on our paper.

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