CAOSP abstracts, Volume: 38, No.: 2, year: 2008

Author(s): Griffin, R.E.M.
Journal: Contributions of the Astronomical Observatory Skalnaté Pleso, vol. 38, no. 2, p. 93-102.
Date: 4/2008
Title: The A-type stars: Normal or ... what?
Keyword(s): stars: binaries, stars: chemically peculiar, stars: individual:

Pages: 93 -- 102

Abstract: This Introduction to the CP-Ap Workshop attempts to discuss some disadvantages of the traditional segregation of this region of the H-R Diagram into groups labelled "normal", "abnormal" or "peculiar", and suggests that the spectra of these objects could owe their appearances as much to chance combinations of certain properties as to specific causes.

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