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Adaptive Optics NIR Imaging of R136 in 30 Doradus: The Stellar Population of a Nearby Starburst

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

B. Brandl ,
B.J. Sams ,
F. Bertoldi ,
A. Eckart ,
R. Genzel ,
S. Drapatz ,
R. Hofmann ,
M. Löwe  and
A. Quirrenbach
B. Brandl
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85740 Garching, Germany
B.J. Sams
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85740 Garching, Germany
F. Bertoldi
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85740 Garching, Germany
A. Eckart
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85740 Garching, Germany
R. Genzel
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85740 Garching, Germany
S. Drapatz
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85740 Garching, Germany
R. Hofmann
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85740 Garching, Germany
M. Löwe
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85740 Garching, Germany
A. Quirrenbach
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85740 Garching, Germany

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The center of the stellar association in 30 Doradus, R136 (HD 38268), is an unusually high concentration of massive and bright O, B and Wolf-Rayet stars and represents the closest example of an intense starburst region.

Type
Posters: Observations of Star Clusters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 174: Dynamical Evolution of Stars Clusters , 1996 , pp. 331 - 332
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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