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http://dx.doi.org/10.5303/PKAS.2007.22.4.097

THE LYMAN-CONTINUUM LUMINOSITIES OF OB-TYPE STARS  

Seon, Kwang-Il (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
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Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society / v.22, no.4, 2007 , pp. 97-101 More about this Journal
Abstract
We are often faced with the task of having to estimate the hydrogen and helium ionizing luminosities of massive stars in the study of H II regions and the warm ionized medium (WIM). Using the results of the most complete compilation of stellar parameters (the effective temperature, stellar radius and surface gravity) and the latest Kurucz stellar atmosphere models, we calculate the ionizing photon luminosities in the $H^0\;and\;He^0$ continua from O3 to B5 stars. We compared the theoretical Lyman-continuum luminosity with the observationally inferred luminosity of the H II region around ${\alpha}$ Vir, and found that the theoretical value is higher than the observed value in contrast to the eariler result.
Keywords
stars: early-type; H II regions; ultraviolet: ISM;
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