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The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus is an open, interoperable and community-supported thesaurus of astronomical and astrophysical concepts and their relationships.
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Add concept: Eta carinae stars and FK comae stars #82

Closed seweissman closed 5 years ago

seweissman commented 7 years ago

These are star types used in the vocab for the APT tool at STScI.

FK Comae stars Defined here: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/FK+Comae+stars as "A class of rapidly spinning giant stars, possibly examples of coalesced stars." Listed in Wikipedia under variable stars. According to one of our scientists, the could go "probably under extrinsic because they are fast rotating, but they also have emission features. Extrinsic -> Ellipsoidal variable stars. (Rotating could be a synonym for ellipsoidal.)"

Eta carinae stars May require more input. One of our scientists thought this could be a synonym for luminous blue variables.

katieefrey commented 6 years ago

I can add FK Comae stars. Is FK Comae variable stars ok?

Any further input on Eta carinae stars? I'll also try asking around.

katieefrey commented 5 years ago

FK Comae accepted.

Eta Carinae rejected pending further input.