The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

2017/01/18 by O. H. Ramírez-Agudelo, H. Sana, A. de Koter +22 · 2 citations
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Archaeology #Astronomy #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Chemistry #Context (archaeology) #Demography #Geography #Large Magellanic Cloud #Physics #Population #Sequence (biology) #Sociology #Stars #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph.SR

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201628914

published as A&A 600, A81 (2017) · 39 pages, 12 figures in the main text, 12 figures in the appendix. Accepted for publication in A&A. Tables C1-C5 will be available at the CDS. Appendix E has been truncated due to size limitations, the full version will be available on A&A

openalex publication_date 2017/01/18 · arxiv created 2018/03/07 · arxiv updated 2018/03/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Context. The Tarantula region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) contains the richest population of spatially resolved massive O-type stars known so far. This unmatched sample offers an opportunity to test models describing their main-sequence evolution and mass-loss properties.

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