SCYON Abstract

Received on October 27 2006

New Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars, and candidates. An annex to The VIIth Catalogue of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars

Authors	Karel A. van der Hucht
Affiliation	SRON National Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands
Accepted by	Astronomy & Astrophysics
Contact	k.a.van.der.hucht@sron.nl
URL	http://www.sron.nl
Links	Westerlund 1

Abstract

This paper gathers, from the literature and private communication, 72 new Galactic Population I Wolf-Rayet stars and 17 candidate WCLd stars, recognized and/or discovered after the publication of The VIIth Catalogue of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars. This brings the total number of known Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars to 298, of which 24 (8%) are in open cluster Westerlund 1, and 60 (20%) are in open clusters near the Galactic Center. (published: A&A 458, 453 (2006)