Bibcode
García, M.; Herrero, A.
Bibliographical reference
Fourth Science Meeting with the GTC (Eds. C. Muñoz-Tuñón & J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 42, pp. 32-33 (2013) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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2013
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Description
Massive stars are fundamental drivers of the Universe because of their
injection of energy, momentum, and nuclear-processed material in every
stage of their life and death. Their feedback depends on their
formation, winds and evolution, and these in turn depend on chemical
composition. The GTC-OSIRIS combination is an excellent machine for
quantitative studies of blue massive stars in Local Group galaxies,
where different metallicity environments can be probed. We present our
analyses of OSIRIS spectra of blue massive stars in IC 1613, where
metallicity ranges from ~0.05 to 0.1 Z_⊙ according to HII regions.
GTC-OSIRIS unveils unknown O-type stars in IC 1613, whose quantitative
analysis will provide new insight for our models of massive star winds
and evolution and will serve as proxy for studies of the early Universe.