The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 M-circle dot stellar mass limit

• Main Authors: Crowther, P.A., Schnurr, O., Hirschi, R., Yusof, N., Parker, R.J., Goodwin, S.P., Abu Kassim, H.
• Format: Article
• Published: Oxford University Press 2010
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/12135/

Spectroscopic analyses of hydrogen-rich WN 5-6 stars within the young star clusters NGC 3603 and R136 are presented, using archival Hubble Space Telescope and Very Large Telescope spectroscopy, and high spatial resolution near-IR photometry, including Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MA...