Two waves of massive stars running away from the young cluster R136.


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Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
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Pays: England
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Date de publication:
09 Oct 2024
Historique:
received: 01 05 2024
accepted: 04 09 2024
medline: 10 10 2024
pubmed: 10 10 2024
entrez: 9 10 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Massive stars are predominantly born in stellar associations or clusters

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doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08013-8
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-08013-8
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Auteurs

Mitchel Stoop (M)

Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. m.p.stoop@uva.nl.

Alex de Koter (A)

Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Lex Kaper (L)

Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Sarah Brands (S)

Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Simon Portegies Zwart (S)

Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Hugues Sana (H)

Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

Fiorenzo Stoppa (F)

Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Mark Gieles (M)

ICREA, Barcelona, Spain.
Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona (IEEC-UB), Barcelona, Spain.

Laurent Mahy (L)

Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium.

Tomer Shenar (T)

The School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Difeng Guo (D)

Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Gijs Nelemans (G)

Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Steven Rieder (S)

Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva, Sauverny, Switzerland.

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