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Mass loss from Wolf-Rayet stars

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The observed times of minimum light derived from the photometry of the Wolf-Rayet eclipsing binary stars CQ Cep and V444 Cyg are used to estimate the mass-loss rate of the Wolf-Rayet components in several modes of mass-loss and mass-exchange.

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    Mahendra Singh & U. S. Chaubey

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Singh, M., Chaubey, U.S. Mass loss from Wolf-Rayet stars. Astrophys Space Sci 124, 389–396 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00656049

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