most citedThe VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey I: Introduction and observational overview

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astro-ph.SR2017★ 89 cited

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey XXIV. Stellar properties of the O-type giants and supergiants in 30 Doradus

O. H. Ramírez-Agudelo, H. Sana, A. de Koter +21

The Tarantula region in the Large Magellanic Cloud contains the richest population of spatially resolved massive O-type stars known so far. This unmatched sample offers an opportun…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 106 cited

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey III: A very massive star in apparent isolation from the massive cluster R136

Joachim M. Bestenlehner, Jorick S. Vink, G. Gräfener +17

VFTS 682 is located in an active star-forming region, at a projected distance of 29 pc from the young massive cluster R136 in the Tarantula Nebula of the Large Magellanic Cloud. It…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 287 cited

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey I: Introduction and observational overview

C. J. Evans, W. D. Taylor, V. Henault-Brunet +39

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS) is an ESO Large Programme that has obtained multi-epoch optical spectroscopy of over 800 massive stars in the 30 Doradus region of the Large…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 37 cited

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey II: R139 revealed as a massive binary system

W. D. Taylor, C. J. Evans, H. Sana +22

We report the discovery that R139 in 30 Doradus is a massive spectroscopic binary system. Multi-epoch optical spectroscopy of R139 was obtained as part of the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula…

astro-ph.CO2011

The FLAMES Tarantula Survey

N. Markova, C. Evans, N. Bastian +30

The Tarantula survey is an ESO Large Programme which has obtained multi-epochs spectroscopy of over 800 massive stars in the 30 Dor region in the Large Magelanic Cloud. Here we bri…