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Massive Stars in the Local Group: Implications for Stellar Evolution and Star Formation
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▪ Abstract The galaxies of the Local Group serve as important laboratories for understanding the physics of massive stars. Here I discuss what is involved in identifying various kinds of massive stars in nearby galaxies: the hydrogen-burning O-type stars and their evolved He-burning evolutionary descendants, the luminous blue variables, red supergiants, and Wolf-Rayet stars. Primarily I review what our knowledge of the massive star population in nearby galaxies has taught us about stellar evolution and star formation. I show that the current generation of stellar evolutionary models do well at matching some of the observed features and provide a look at the sort of new observational data that will provide a benchmark against which new models can be evaluated.
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- Authors
- Massey, P.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2003-09
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 15-56
- ISSN
- 0066-4146 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-4282
- OpenAlex
- W2153060903
- Cited by
- 319
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 1.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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