Digitale Medien
Palo Alto, Calif.
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Annual Reviews
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
41 (2003), S. 15-56
ISSN:
0066-4146
Quelle:
Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection 1932-2001ff
Thema:
Physik
Notizen:
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.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.astro.41.071601.170033
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