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Physics  2014 

The half-century history of studies of Romano's star

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Luminous blue variables (LBVs) are rare objects of very high luminosity and mass loss rates, low wind velocities, exhibiting strong irregular photometric and spectral variability. They are generally believed to be a relatively short evolutionary stage in the life of a massive star, marking the transition from the Main Sequence toward Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars. However, recent studies indicate that progenitors of several supernovae underwent LBV-like eruptions. These studies support the view that at least some LBV stars are the end point of the evolution but not a transition phase. LBVs are rare objects, observations of whose in the Galaxy are inevitably connected with difficulties in determination of the distance and interstellar extinction. Hence, studying these rare objects in nearby galaxies is potentially more prospective. Therefore, investigation of the extragalactic star Romano's star (V532 or GR290) which is now classified as LBV/post-LBV star and shows late-WN spectrum, is very important for our understanding of evolution of massive stars in general.

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