The 2018 Census of Luminous Blue Variables
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2018-10-26 v1
Abstract
We present a census of all known and candidate luminous blue variables in the Local Group.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.04262,
title = {The 2018 Census of Luminous Blue Variables},
author = {Noel D. Richardson and Andrea Mehner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.04262},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
1 table, accepted to Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society
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