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The properties of early-type stars in the Magellanic Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2008

Christopher J. Evans
Christopher J. Evans*
Affiliation:
UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, UK email: cje@roe.ac.uk
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The past decade has witnessed impressive progress in our understanding of the physical properties of massive stars in the Magellanic Clouds, and how they compare to their cousins in the Galaxy. I summarise new results in this field, including evidence for reduced mass-loss rates and faster stellar rotational velocities in the Clouds, and their present-day compositions. I also discuss the stellar temperature scale, emphasizing its dependence on metallicity across the entire upper-part of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.

Keywords

stars: early-typestars: fundamental parametersMagellanic Clouds
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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S256: The Magellanic System: Stars, Gas, and Galaxies , July 2008 , pp. 325 - 336
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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