Bibcode
Evans, C. J.; Bastian, N.; Beletsky, Y.; Brott, I.; Cantiello, M.; Clark, J. S.; Crowther, P. A.; de Koter, A.; de Mink, S. E.; Dufton, P. L.; Dunstall, P.; Gieles, M.; Gräfener, G.; Hénault-Brunet, V.; Herrero, A.; Howarth, I. D.; Langer, N.; Lennon, D. J.; Maíz Apellániz, J.; Markova, N.; Najarro, F.; Puls, J.; Sana, H.; Simón-Díaz, S.; Smartt, S. J.; Stroud, V. E.; Taylor, W. D.; Trundle, C.; van Loon, J. Th.; Vink, J. S.; Walborn, N. R.
Bibliographical reference
Star clusters: basic galactic building blocks throughout time and space, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 266, p. 35-40
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2010
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23
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15
Description
The Tarantula Survey is an ambitious ESO Large Programme that has
obtained multi-epoch spectroscopy of over 1000 massive stars in the 30
Doradus region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Here, we introduce the
scientific motivations of the survey and give an overview of the
observational sample. Ultimately, quantitative analysis of every star,
paying particular attention to the effects of rotational mixing and
binarity, will be used to address fundamental questions in both stellar
and cluster evolution.