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The VLT-Flames Tarantula Survey: an overview of the VFTS results so far

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2014

H. Sana  and
the VLT-Flames Tarantula consortium
H. Sana
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
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Abstract

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS) has acquired multi-epoch spectroscopy of over 800 O, B and Wolf-Rayet stars in the 30 Doradus region with the aim to investigate a number of important questions related to the evolution of massive stars and of cluster dynamics. In this paper, I first provide an overview of the scientific results obtained by the VFTS consortium so far. I then review the constraints obtained on the multiplicity properties of massive stars in 30 Dor and compare them to our recent results from a Milky Way sample.

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