Hostname: page-component-788cddb947-jbkpb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-10-14T19:35:58.823Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The VLT–FLAMES Tarantula Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

C. J. Evans ,
N. Bastian ,
Y. Beletsky ,
I. Brott ,
M. Cantiello ,
J. S. Clark ,
P. A. Crowther ,
A. de Koter ,
S. E. de Mink  and
P. L. Dufton
...Show all authors
C. J. Evans
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
N. Bastian
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
Y. Beletsky
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
I. Brott
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
M. Cantiello
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
J. S. Clark
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
P. A. Crowther
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
A. de Koter
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
S. E. de Mink
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
P. L. Dufton
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
P. Dunstall
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
M. Gieles
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
G. Gräfener
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
V. Hénault-Brunet
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
A. Herrero
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
I. D. Howarth
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
N. Langer
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
D. J. Lennon
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
J. Maíz Apellániz
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
N. Markova
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
F. Najarro
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
J. Puls
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
H. Sana
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
S. Simón-Díaz
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
S. J. Smartt
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
V. E. Stroud
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
W. D. Taylor
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
C. Trundle
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
J. Th. van Loon
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
J. S. Vink
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
N. R. Walborn
Affiliation:
UK ATC, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: [email protected]
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The Tarantula Survey is an ambitious ESO Large Programme that has obtained multi-epoch spectroscopy of over 1000 massive stars in the 30 Doradus region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Here, we introduce the scientific motivations of the survey and give an overview of the observational sample. Ultimately, quantitative analysis of every star, paying particular attention to the effects of rotational mixing and binarity, will be used to address fundamental questions in both stellar and cluster evolution.

Keywords

stars: early-typestars: fundamental parametersbinaries: spectroscopicopen clusters and associations: individual (30 Doradus)
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S266: Star clusters: basic galactic building blocks throughout time and space , August 2009 , pp. 35 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

References

Bosch, G., Terlevich, E., & Terlevich, R. 2009, AJ, 137, 3437CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cohen, R. S., Dame, T. M., Garay, G., Montani, J., Rubio, M., & Thaddeus, P. 1988, ApJ (Letters), 331, L95CrossRefGoogle Scholar
De Becker, M., Rauw, G., Manfroid, J., & Eenens, P. 2006, A&A, 456, 1121Google Scholar
de Mink, S. E., Cantiello, M., Langer, N., Pols, O. R., Brott, I., & Yoon, S.-C. 2009, A&A, 497, 243Google Scholar
Evans, C. J., et al. 2005, A&A, 437, 467Google Scholar
Evans, C. J., Lennon, D. J., Smartt, S. J., & Trundle, C. 2006, A&A, 456, 623Google Scholar
Fukui, Y., Kawamura, A., Minamidani, T., Mizuno, Y., Kanai, Y., Mizuno, N., Onishi, T., Yonekura, Y., Mizuno, A., Ogawa, H., & Rubio, M. 2008, ApJS, 178, 56CrossRefGoogle Scholar
García, B. & Mermilliod, J. C. 2001, A&A, 368, 122Google Scholar
Hunter, I., Brott, I., Lennon, D. J., Langer, N., Dufton, P. L., Trundle, C., Smartt, S. J., de Koter, A., Evans, C. J., & Ryans, R. S. I. 2008, ApJ (Letters), 676, L29CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mahy, L., Nazé, Y., Rauw, G., Gosset, E., De Becker, M., Sana, H., & Eenens, P. 2009, A&A, 502, 937Google Scholar
Mastropietro, C., Burkert, A., & Moore, B. 2009, MNRAS, 399, 2004CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mokiem, M. R., et al. 2007, A&A, 465, 1003Google Scholar
Pasquini, L., et al. 2002, Msngr, 110, 1Google Scholar
Sana, H., Gosset, E., Nazé, Y., Rauw, G., & Linder, N. 2008, MNRAS, 386, 447CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sana, H., Gosset, E., & Evans, C. J. 2009, MNRAS, in press (arXiv:0909.0486)Google Scholar
Schnurr, O., Chené, A.-N., Casoli, J., Moffat, A. F. J., & St-Louis, N. 2009, MNRAS, 397, 2049CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Selman, F., Melnick, J., Bosch, G., & Terlevich, R. 1999, A&AS, 341, 98Google Scholar
Walborn, N. R. & Blades, J. C. 1997, ApJS, 112, 457CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Walborn, N. R. 2009, in: Leitherer, et al. (eds.), Hot & Cool: Bridging Gaps in Massive Star Evolution, ASP Conf. Ser., in pressGoogle Scholar
Yoon, S.-C., Langer, N., & Norman, C. 2006, A&A, 460, 199Google Scholar
Zinnecker, H. & Yorke, H. W. 2007, ARA&A, 45, 481Google Scholar