Bibcode
de Jager, C.; Lobel, A.; Israelian, G.; Nieuwenhuijzen, H.
Bibliographical reference
P Cygni 2000: 400 Years of Progress, ASP Conference Proceeding Vol. 233, Edited by M. de Groot and C. Sterken, San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific. ISBN: 1-58381-070-6, 2001, p. 191.
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Description
As long as the yellow hypergiant HR8752 has been observed
spectroscopically it has shown erratic and significant fluctuations in
its effective temperature. But an impressive and hitherto never observed
rise in its temperature started around 1985. Since that time Teff has
risen from 4600 K to 7900 K. Regular further observations are needed to
see if and when this rise will stop, and what will happen thereafter.
The instability is related to the fact that in its evolution the star
has entered the Yellow Evolutionary Void, a region in the
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram where blueward-evolving supergiants have
unstable atmospheres and where the stars are also dynamically unstable.
The rise in temperature started after a period of enhanced mass loss and
at a time when the photospheric acceleration was directed outward.
Recently (1998) the photospheric effective acceleration has again
decreased to below zero. This star is the first in which dynamic
instability can be studied observationally in great detail. We
hypothesise that HR8752 will traverse the Void and thereafter, after a
period of stability, will enter the "blue'' region of dynamic
instability, and then may become a star like P Cygni.