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Stothers 1999

Stothers, R.B., 1999: A semiempirical test for dynamical instability in luminous blue variables. Astrophys. J., 516, 366-368, doi:10.1086/307117.

By employing as input parameters only observationally determined stellar surface quantities, detailed envelope models for six well-observed luminous blue variables at quiescence are constructed and tested for marginal dynamical instability. The best-observed of these objects, P Cyg, proves to be exactly in a state of marginally dynamical instability, just as predicted. Within the larger observational errors estimated for the five other objects, they too are probably in the same marginally unstable state as P Cyg.

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@article{st07100z,
  author={Stothers, R. B.},
  title={A semiempirical test for dynamical instability in luminous blue variables},
  year={1999},
  journal={Astrophysical Journal},
  volume={516},
  pages={366--368},
  doi={10.1086/307117},
}

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TY  - JOUR
ID  - st07100z
AU  - Stothers, R. B.
PY  - 1999
TI  - A semiempirical test for dynamical instability in luminous blue variables
JA  - Astrophys. J.
JO  - Astrophysical Journal
VL  - 516
SP  - 366
EP  - 368
DO  - 10.1086/307117
ER  -

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