Response to Comment on "An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst"

Authors
  • F.R.N. Schneider
  • H. Sana
  • C.J. Evans
  • J.M. Bestenlehner
  • N. Castro
  • L. Fossati
  • G. Gräfener
  • Norbert Langer
  • O.H. Ramírez-Agudelo
  • C. Sabín-Sanjulián
  • S. Simón-Díaz
  • F. Tramper
  • P.A. Crowther
  • A. de Koter
  • S.E. de Mink
  • P.L. Dufton
  • M. Garcia
  • M. Gieles
  • V. Hénault-Brunet
  • A. Herrero
  • R.G. Izzard
  • V. Kalari
  • D.J. Lennon
  • J. Maíz Apellániz
  • N. Markova
  • F. Najarro
  • P. Podsiadlowski
  • J. Puls
  • W.D. Taylor
  • J.T. van Loon
  • J.S. Vink
  • C. Norman
Publication date 06-2018
Journal Science
Article number eaat7032
Volume | Issue number 361 | 6400
Number of pages 3
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract Farr and Mandel reanalyze our data, finding initial mass function slopes for high-mass stars in 30 Doradus that agree with our results. However, their reanalysis appears to underpredict the observed number of massive stars. Their technique results in more precise slopes than in our work, strengthening our conclusion that there is an excess of massive stars (>30 solar masses) in 30 Doradus.
Document type Comment/Letter to the editor
Language English
Related publication An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat7032 (Final published version)
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