2016/11/03 by V. V. Gvaramadze, A. Y. Kniazev, Gvaramadze, V. V. +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #FOS: Physical sciences #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) #astro-ph.GA #astro-ph.SR
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1611.01155
6 pages, 4 figures, in The B[e] Phenomenon. Forty Years of Studies. Proceedings of the International Conference held in Prague, Czech Republic, June 27 to July 1, 2016, (eds.) A.S. Miroshnichenko, S.V. Zharikov, D. Korcakova, and M. Wolf, ASP Conf. Ser. 2017 (in press)
arxiv created 2016/11/03 · arxiv updated 2016/11/07
Searches for compact mid-IR nebulae with the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), accompanied by spectroscopic observations of central stars of these nebulae led to the discovery of many dozens of massive stars at different evolutionary stages, of which the most numerous are candidate luminous blue variables (LBVs). In this paper, we give a census of candidate and confirmed Galactic LBVs revealed with Spitzer and WISE, and present some new results of spectroscopic observations of central stars of mid-IR nebulae.