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Life and Death of Very Massive Stars
Norhasliza Yusof, Hasan Abu Kassima, Raphael Hirschi +4
We recently determined the mass of the most massive star known to the date, R136a1 with a mass at birth 320 times the mass of our sun, as well as the mass of several other stars th…
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The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit
Paul A Crowther, Olivier Schnurr, Raphael Hirschi +4
Spectroscopic analyses of H-rich WN5-6 stars within the young star clusters NGC 3603 and R136 are presented, using archival HST & VLT spectroscopy, & high spatial resolution near-I…