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How to form a 200 M⊙ star
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2017
Abstract
Stellar coalescence is suggested as a possible mechanism for doubling the upper stellar mass limit from ∼100M⊙ to ∼200M⊙ in a moderately dense cluster of a few hundred young massive stars (∼105 M⊙ pc−3). The merger will be between the two components of the dominant central tight binary formed in the core of the cluster by the N-body evolution. This process may occur in some giant extragalactic HII regions.
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 116: Luminous Stars and Associations in Galaxies , 1986 , pp. 271 - 273
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- Copyright © Reidel 1986
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