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On the Nature of the LBV/WR Eclipsing Binary System HD 5980
Bibcode: 2004RMxAA..40..107K

Koenigsberger, G.

HD 5980 is a multiple star system in the Small Magellanic Cloud that underwent a luminous blue variable-like eruption in 1993-1994. The erupting star (star A) forms part of a close eclipsing binary whose companion's (star B) Wolf-Rayet nature has recently been questioned. The data analyzed in this paper cover the period 1979-2002, and support the …

2004 Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica
eHST 36