High-mass stars in Milky Way clusters
Abstract
Young open clusters are our laboratories for studying high-mass star formation and evolution. Unfortunately, the information that they provide is difficult to interpret, and sometimes contradictory. In this contribution, I present a few examples of the uncertainties that we face when confronting observations with theoretical models and our own assumptions.
- Publication:
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The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars
- Pub Date:
- November 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S174392131700299X
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1803.07986
- Bibcode:
- 2017IAUS..329..271N
- Keywords:
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- open cluster and associations: general;
- stars: massive;
- formation;
- evolution;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Review given at IAU Symposium 329, The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars (Auckland, December 2016). Edited by J.J. Eldridge et al. Very minor updates in the reference list. Acknowledgements accidentally dropped from printed version are included