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FORECASTOR -- I. Finding Optics Requirements and Exposure times for the Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and UV Research mission
Isaac Cheng, Tyrone E. Woods, Patrick Côté +21
The Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and ultraviolet Research (CASTOR) is a proposed Canadian-led 1m-class space telescope that will carry out ultraviolet and blu…
Multimass modelling of Milky Way globular clusters -- I. Implications on their stellar initial mass function above 1 M
Nolan Dickson, Vincent Hénault-Brunet, Holger Baumgardt +2
The distribution of stars and stellar remnants (white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes) within globular clusters holds clues about their formation and long-term evolution, with i…
Dynamics in the outskirts of four Milky Way globular clusters: it's the tides that dominate
Zhen Wan, Anthony D. Arnold, William H. Oliver +17
We present the results of a spectroscopic survey of the outskirts of 4 globular clusters -- NGC 1261, NGC 4590, NGC 1904, and NGC 1851 -- covering targets within 1 degree from the…
An X-ray quiet black hole born with a negligible kick in a massive binary within the Large Magellanic Cloud
Tomer Shenar, Hugues Sana, Laurent Mahy +35
Stellar-mass black holes are the final remnants of stars born with more than 15 solar masses. Billions are expected to reside in the Local Group, yet only few are known, mostly det…
MUSE narrow field mode observations of the central kinematics of M15
Christopher Usher, Sebastian Kamann, Mark Gieles +4
We present observations of the stellar kinematics of the centre of the core collapsed globular cluster M15 obtained with the MUSE integral field spectrograph on the VLT operating i…
The dynamics of the globular cluster NGC3201 out to the Jacobi radius
Zhen Wan, William Oliver, Holger Baumgardt +7
As part of a chemo-dynamical survey of five nearby globular clusters with 2dF/AAOmega on the AAT, we have obtained kinematic information for the globular cluster NGC3201. Our new o…
Globular cluster number density profiles using Gaia DR2
T. J. L. de Boer, M. Gieles, E. Balbinot +4
Using data from Gaia DR2, we study the radial number density profiles of the Galactic globular cluster sample. Proper motions are used for accurate membership selection, especially…
Gaia and HST astrometry of the very massive 150 candidate runaway star VFTS682
M. Renzo, S. E. de Mink, D. J. Lennon +12
How very massive stars form is still an open question in astrophysics. VFTS682 is among the most massive stars known, with an inferred initial mass of 150 . It is l…
A-type stars in the Canada-France Imaging Survey I. The stellar halo of the Milky Way traced to large radius by blue horizontal branch stars
Guillaume F. Thomas, Alan W. McConnachie, Rodrigo A. Ibata +14
We present the stellar density profile of the outer halo of the Galaxy traced over a range of Galactocentric radii from kpc by blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars…
Response to comment on "An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst"
F. R. N. Schneider, H. Sana, C. J. Evans +29
Farr and Mandel reanalyse our data, finding initial-mass-function slopes for high mass stars in 30 Doradus that agree with our results. However, their reanalysis appears to underpr…
The unexpected kinematics of multiple populations in NGC6362: do binaries play a role?
E. Dalessandro, A. Mucciarelli, M. Bellazzini +9
We present a detailed analysis of the kinematic properties of the multiple populations (MPs) in the low-mass Galactic globular cluster NGC6362 based on a sample of about 500 member…
The effect of stellar-mass black holes on the central kinematics of omega Cen: a cautionary tale for IMBH interpretations
Alice Zocchi, Mark Gieles, Vincent Hénault-Brunet
The search for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in the centre of globular clusters is often based on the observation of a central cusp in the surface brightness profile and a…
Concurrent formation of supermassive stars and globular clusters: implications for early self-enrichment
Mark Gieles, Corinne Charbonnel, Martin Krause +7
We present a model for the concurrent formation of globular clusters (GCs) and supermassive stars (SMSs, ) to address the origin of the HeCNONaMgAl abundance…
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey
Jorick S. Vink, C. J. Evans, J. Bestenlehner +5
We present a number of notable results from the VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS), an ESO Large Program during which we obtained multi-epoch medium-resolution optical spectroscopy…
Mass models of NGC 6624 without an intermediate-mass black hole
Mark Gieles, Eduardo Balbinot, Rashid Yaaqib +4
An intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) was recently reported to reside in the centre of the Galactic globular cluster (GC) NGC 6624, based on timing observations of a millisecond p…
Differences in the rotational properties of multiple stellar populations in M 13: a faster rotation for the "extreme" chemical subpopulation
M. J. Cordero, V. Hénault-Brunet, C. A. Pilachowski +3
We use radial velocities from spectra of giants obtained with the WIYN telescope, coupled with existing chemical abundance measurements of Na and O for the same stars, to probe the…
A stellar-mass black hole population in the globular cluster NGC 6101?
Miklos Peuten, Alice Zocchi, Mark Gieles +2
Dalessandro et al. observed a similar distribution for blue straggler stars and main-sequence turn-off stars in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6101, and interpreted this feature…
Multiple populations in globular clusters: constraints from kinematics and dynamics
Vincent Hénault-Brunet
We discuss constraints on the formation of multiple populations in globular clusters (GCs) imposed by their present-day kinematics (velocity dispersion and anisotropy) and spatial…
On the uniqueness of kinematical signatures of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters
Alice Zocchi, Mark Gieles, Vincent Hénault-Brunet
Finding an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) in a globular cluster (GC), or proving its absence, is a crucial ingredient in our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. T…
Studying the kinematics of the giant star-forming region 30 Doradus. I. The data
S. Torres-Flores, R. Barbá, J. Maíz Apellániz +4
We present high-quality VLT-FLAMES optical spectroscopy of the nebular gas in the giant star-forming region 30 Doradus. In this paper, the first of a series, we introduce our obser…
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey: The fastest rotating O-type star and shortest period LMC pulsar - remnants of a supernova disrupted binary?
P. L. Dufton, P. R. Dunstall, C. J. Evans +12
We present a spectroscopic analysis of an extremely rapidly rotating late O-type star, VFTS102, observed during a spectroscopic survey of 30 Doradus. VFTS102 has a projected rotati…
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey
C. J. Evans, N. Bastian, Y. Beletsky +28
The Tarantula Survey is an ambitious ESO Large Programme that has obtained multi-epoch spectroscopy of over 1,000 massive stars in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Clo…