Wolf-Rayet Stars with BRITE

Anthony F. J. Moffat, Nicole St-Louis, Danny Carlos-Leblanc, Noel D. Richardson, Herbert Pablo, Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa and the BRITE Team

We briefly describe the four Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars that BRITE-Constellation has observed so far and how this array of nanosatellites can contribute to future work on WR stars. Some of the results are quite novel, even down to visual magnitude 7, the faintest star observed to date with BRITE.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 8, 37-42 (2018)

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