The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

Authors
  • C.J. Evans
  • N. Bastian
  • Y. Beletsky
  • I. Brott
  • M. Cantiello
  • J.S. Clark
  • P.A. Crowther
  • A. de Koter
  • S.E. de Mink
  • P.L. Dufton
  • P. Dunstall
  • M. Gieles
  • G. Gräfener
  • V. Hénault-Brunet
  • A. Herrero
  • I.D. Howarth
  • N. Langer
  • D.J. Lennon
  • J. Maíz Apellániz
  • N. Markova
  • F. Najarro
  • J. Puls
  • H. Sana
  • S. Simón-Díaz
  • S.J. Smartt
  • V.E. Stroud
  • W.D. Taylor
  • C. Trundle
  • J.T. van Loon
  • J.S. Vink
  • N.R. Walborn
Publication date 18-01-2010
Journal Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Event 266th symposium of the International Astronomical Union, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Volume | Issue number 5 | S266
Pages (from-to) 35-40
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract 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.
Document type Article
Note ID: 56
Proceedings title: Star clusters: basic galactic building blocks throughout time and space
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Place of publication: Cambridge
ISBN: 978-0-521-76499-5
Editors: R. de Grijs, J.R.D. Lépine
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921309990846
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