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The Stellar Content of 30 Doradus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Nolan R. Walborn
Nolan R. Walborn*
Affiliation:
Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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The supergiant H II region 30 Doradus is placed in context as the optically most spectacular component in a much larger region of recent and current star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud, as shown by deep Hα photographs and the new IRAS results. The current state of knowledge concerning the concentrated central cluster in 30 Dor is summarized. Spectroscopic information exists for only 24 of the brightest members, most of which are WR stars; however, photometry shows over 100 probable members earlier than BO. The spectral classification of these stars is a difficult observational problem currently being addressed; in the meantime their hypothetical ionizing luminosity is calculated from the photometry and compared with that suggested for the superluminous central object R136a alone, and with the H II region luminosity. With reference to related regions in the Galaxy, the likelihood that many of the brightest objects in 30 Dor are multiple systems is emphasized. An interpretation of R136a as a system containing a few very massive stars (as opposed to a single supermassive object) is in good accord with the observations, including the visual micrometer results. The study of 30 Dor and its central cluster is vital for an understanding of the numerous apparently similar regions now being discovered in more distant galaxies.

Type
30 Doradus and R136
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 108: Structure and Evolution of the Magellanic Clouds , 1984 , pp. 243 - 253
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984 

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