2 papers
astro-ph.IM2025
Very Massive Stars with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Fabrice Martins, Aida Wofford, Miriam Garcia +3
Very massive stars (VMS) are defined as stars with an initial mass in excess of 100 Msun. Because of their short lifetime and the shape of the stellar mass function, they are rare…
astro-ph.SR2015
Massive open star clusters using the VVV survey IV. WR 62-2, a new very massive star in the core of the VVV CL041 cluster
A. -N. Chené, S. Ramírez Alegría, J. Borissova +8
Context The ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Vía Láctea (VVV) provides deep multi-epoch infrared observations for an unprecedented 562 sq. degrees of the Galactic bulge and…