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If there’s one spectral line profile which most amateur astronomers have heard of it’s the P Cygni profile. P Cygni itself is a class B star lying in the plain of the northern MilkyWay close to the second magnitude star Gamma Cygni. P Cygni profiles are all to do with stellar winds and they come as we shall see in various interesting guises.
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Robinson, K. (2007). The P Cygni Profile and Friends. In: Spectroscopy: The Key to the Stars. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68288-4_10
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