The yellow hypergiant HR 5171 A: Resolving a massive interacting binary in the common envelope phase

O. Chesneau, A. Meilland, E. Chapellier, F. Millour, A. M. van Genderen, Yaël Nazé, Nathan Smith, A. Spang, J. V. Smoker, Luc Dessart,

Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2014 · 41 citations · 77 references

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Context. Only a few stars are caught in the very brief and often crucial stages when they quickly traverse the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, and none has yet been spatially resolved in the mass transfer phase.

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