VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey
(VFTS)
(VLT spectroscopic survey of massive stars)
The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS) is a
spectroscopic survey
of 900+ massive stars in the 30 Doradus region (i.e.,
Tarantula Nebula, an HII region) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC),
using the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope FLAMES spectrograph in the
2008/2009 time frame.
(survey,stars,LMC)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_Nebula
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020Msngr.181...22E/abstract
https://www.roe.ac.uk/~cje/tarantula/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017IAUS..329..279V/abstract
Coordinates: | VFTS J053838-690542 |
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Prefix | Example | | |
VFTS | VFTS 682 | | |
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