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symbiotic star

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symbiotic star [‚sim·bē′äd·ik ′stär]
(astronomy)
A stellar object whose optical spectrum displays features indicative of two very different stellar regimes: a stellar spectrum whose flux distribution and absorption lines suggest the presence of a cool star, and emission lines which can be formed only in a much hotter medium.
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Interacting Binaries Mr Santander-Garcia, Dr Corradi (Canary Islands, E), Prof Whitelock (SAAO/UCT), Dr Munari (Padova, I), Dr Livio (STSci, USA) and others from the same institutions used long slit spectroscopy form the VLT and multi-epoch images from HST to derive an expansion parallax for the symbiotic star Hen 2-147.
University of Cape Town: Astronomy Department--2007 annual report by Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
This model for He 2-104 is neither that of a symbiotic star nor that of a planetary nebula," they say.
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Report on CCD activities at the Bronberg Observatory in 2007: Berto ... by Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
 
 
 
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