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O stars is a lecture about an entity, source, and/or object observed using radiation astronomy that is classified as an O-type star.

HD 93129 is surrounded by the lesser stars of Trumpler 14 star cluster. Credit: NASA & ESA, Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA, Spain).

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Quiz

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1 O stars can be put into classes based on?

luminosity
size
apparent mass
temperature
spectral lines
composition

2 Yes or No, Stellar class O stars have surface temperatures high enough that most of their luminescence is in the ultraviolet.

Yes
No

3 Which of the following is not a characteristic of O type stars?

can be a spectroscopic binary
the hottest stars
can be a high-velocity star
peak wavelength in the gamma-ray range
orange color.

4 True or False, Alnitak is a triple star system with an O9.7 supergiant and an O9 giant as well as a B0 giant.

TRUE
FALSE

5 True or False, Spectroscopically Zeta Puppis is classified as O4 I.

TRUE
FALSE

6 True or False, BI 253 is an O2V star in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

TRUE
FALSE

7 Gamma-ray stars have surface temperatures starting at 300,000,000 K (300 MK) corresponding to a peak wavelength of 0.010 nm (10 pm) for the beginning of super soft

sources.

8 True or False, X-ray stars have surface temperatures starting at 300,000 K corresponding to a peak wavelength of 10 nm for the beginning of super soft X-ray sources.

TRUE
FALSE

9 Which of the following is not a phenomenon usually associated with O-type SN progenitors?

a blue supergiant
an LBV
a red supergiant
an early W-R
a WN

10 Complete the text:

On the main sequence for spectral classes 06-06.5, 07, and 08 one finds strong

λ4686 absorption often accompanied by weak

λλ4634-4640-4642 emission.

11 True or False, In 1947, G. E. Kron proposed that starspots were the reason for periodic changes in brightness on blue dwarfs.

TRUE
FALSE


Hypotheses

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Main resource: Hypotheses
  1. Stars that emit light do so because they are receiving electron irradiation.

See also

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