Observational overview of clumping in hot stellar winds

In the old days (pre ∼1990) hot stellar winds were assumed to be smooth, which made life fairly easy and bothered no one. Then after suspicious behaviour had been revealed, e.g. stochastic temporal variability in broadband polarimetry of single hot stars, it took the emerging CCD technology develope...

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Main Author: Moffat, Anthony F. J.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Universität Potsdam 2007
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Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-17633
http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/1763/