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2022•ASTRONOMY AT THE EPOCH OF MULTIMESSENGER STUDIES. Proceedings of the VAK-2021 conference, Aug 23–28, 2021Open access

Wray 15-906 low mass Luminous Blue Variable on a pre-supernova stage

Olga Maryeva, V. Gvaramadze, A. Kniazev, L. Berdnikov

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Evolutionary link between Red Supergiants and Luminous Blue variables is interesting, but still poorly understood. Wepresent the results of study of the Galactic candidate luminous blue variable Wray 15-906, revealed via detection of itsinfrared circumstellar shell (of ≈ 2 pc in diameter) with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and the HerschelSpace Observatory. Using the stellar atmosphere code CMFGEN and the Gaia parallax, we found that Wray 15-906 is arelatively low-luminosity, log(L/L ⊙ ) ≈ 5.4, star of temperature of 25 ± 2 kK. In the framework of single star evolution,the obtained results suggest that Wray 15-906 is a post-red supergiant star with initial mass of ≈ 25 M ⊙ and that beforeexploding as a supernova it could transform for a short time into a WN11h star. The presence of shell with mass 2.9±0.5 M ⊙indicates that Wray 15-906 has suffered substantial mass loss in the recent past.

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Evolutionary link between Red Supergiants and Luminous Blue variables is interesting, but still poorly understood. Wepresent the results of study of the Galactic candidate luminous blue variable Wray 15-906, revealed via detection of itsinfrared circumstellar shell (of ≈ 2 pc in diameter) with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and the HerschelSpace Observatory. Using the stellar atmosphere code CMFGEN and the Gaia parallax, we found that Wray 15-906 is arelatively low-luminosity, log(L/L ⊙ ) ≈ 5.4, star of temperature of 25 ± 2 kK. In the framework of single star evolution,the obtained results suggest that Wray 15-906 is a post-red supergiant star with initial mass of ≈ 25 M ⊙ and that beforeexploding as a supernova it could transform for a short time into a WN11h star. The presence of shell with mass 2.9±0.5 M ⊙indicates that Wray 15-906 has suffered substantial mass loss in the recent past.

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Evolutionary link between Red Supergiants and Luminous Blue variables is interesting, but still poorly understood. Wepresent the results of study of the Galactic candidate luminous blue variable Wray 15-906, revealed via detection of itsinfrared circumstellar shell (of ≈ 2 pc in diameter) with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and the HerschelSpace Observatory. Using the stellar atmosphere code CMFGEN and the Gaia parallax, we found that Wray 15-906 is arelatively low-luminosity, log(L/L ⊙ ) ≈ 5.4, star of temperature of 25 ± 2 kK. In the framework of single star evolution,the obtained results suggest that Wray 15-906 is a post-red supergiant star with initial mass of ≈ 25 M ⊙ and that beforeexploding as a supernova it could transform for a short time into a WN11h star. The presence of shell with mass 2.9±0.5 M ⊙indicates that Wray 15-906 has suffered substantial mass loss in the recent past.

Key concepts: Red supergiant, Supergiant, Luminous blue variable, Physics, Astrophysics, Luminosity, Supernova, Astronomy

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