The R136 star cluster dissected with Hubble Space Telescope/STIS-III. The most massive stars and their clumped winds

SA Brands, A de Koter, JM Bestenlehner… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Context. The star cluster R136 inside the Large Magellanic Cloud hosts a rich population of
massive stars, including the most massive stars known. The strong stellar winds of these …

Resolving the core of R136 in the optical

VM Kalari, EP Horch, R Salinas, JS Vink… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The sharpest optical images of the R136 cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud are
presented, allowing us for the first time to resolve members of the central core, including …

Clues on the presence and segregation of very massive stars in the Sunburst Lyman-continuum cluster at z= 2.37

U Meštrić, E Vanzella, A Upadhyaya, F Martins… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
We report the identification of very massive stars (VMS; mass> 100 M⊙) that may be
segregated in the center of the young massive star cluster at z= 2.37 hosted in the lensed …

X-ray properties of early-type stars in the Tarantula Nebula from T-ReX

PA Crowther, PS Broos, LK Townsley… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We reassess the historical LX/L Bol relation for early-type stars from a comparison between
T-ReX, the Chandra ACIS X-ray survey of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic …

Extinction towards the cluster R136 in the Large Magellanic Cloud-An extinction law from the near-infrared to the ultraviolet

SA Brands, A de Koter, JM Bestenlehner… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Context. The cluster R136 in the giant star-forming region 30 Doradus in the Large
Magellanic Cloud (LMC) offers a unique opportunity to resolve a stellar population in a …

Lessons learned from SPHERE for the astrometric strategy of the next generation of exoplanet imaging instruments

AL Maire, M Langlois, P Delorme… - Journal of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Measuring the orbits of directly imaged exoplanets requires precise astrometry at the
milliarcsec level over long periods of time due to their wide separation to the stars (≳ 10 au) …

Massive star cluster formation III. Early mass segregation during cluster assembly

B Polak, MM Mac Low, RS Klessen, SP Zwart… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Mass segregation is seen in many star clusters, but whether massive stars form in the center
of a cluster or migrate there dynamically is still debated. N-body simulations have shown that …

Extreme adaptive optics astrometry of R136-Searching for high proper motion stars

Z Khorrami, M Langlois, F Vakili, PC Clark… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
We compared high-contrast near-infrared images of the core of R136 taken by
VLT/SPHERE, in two epochs separated by 3.06 years. For the first time we monitored the …

[PDF][PDF] COMMISSION B6 ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOMETRY & POLARIMETRY

C Jordi, L Casagrande - 2021 - iau.org
Polarimetry continues to be a very active field, be it in terms of research papers, meetings,
instruments and research programs. This was particularly true from March 2018 through …