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The Keck Aperture-masking Experiment: Near-Infrared Sizes of Dusty Wolf-Rayet Stars
We report the results of a high angular resolution near-infrared surveyof dusty Wolf-Rayet stars using the Keck I Telescope, including newmultiwavelength images of the pinwheel nebulae WR 98a, WR 104, and WR112. Angular sizes were measured for an additional eight dustyWolf-Rayet stars using aperture-masking interferometry, allowing us toprobe characteristic sizes down to ~20 mas (~40 AU for typical sources).With angular sizes and specific fluxes, we can directly measure thewavelength-dependent surface brightness and size relations for oursample. We discovered tight correlations of these properties within oursample that could not be explained by simple spherically symmetric dustshells or even the more realistic ``pinwheel nebula''(three-dimensional) radiative transfer model, when using Zubko's opticalconstants. While the tightly correlated surface brightness relations weuncovered offer compelling indirect evidence of a shared and distinctivedust shell geometry among our sample, long-baseline interferometersshould target the marginally resolved objects in our sample in order toconclusively establish the presence or absence of the putativeunderlying colliding-wind binaries thought to produce the dust shellsaround WC Wolf-Rayet stars.

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Observation and Astrometry data

Constellation:Centaurus
Right ascension:13h18m05.47s
Declination:-60°23'50.2"
Apparent magnitude:7.508
Distance:272.48 parsecs
Proper motion RA:-20.5
Proper motion Dec:0.9
B-T magnitude:9.691
V-T magnitude:7.689

Catalogs and designations:
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HD 1989HD 115399
TYCHO-2 2000TYC 8990-2057-1
USNO-A2.0USNO-A2 0225-16555040
HIPHIP 64894

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