MN44: a luminous blue variable running away from Westerlund 1

Abstract

We show that Westerlund 1 is the likely birth cluster of the runaway bona fide LBV MN44.

3 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society

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