Orbits of four very massive binaries in the R136 cluster

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 565, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 982-993

  Massey, Philip ^a   Penny, Laura R ^b   Vukovich, Julia ^a  

^a LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: eclipsing; Binaries: spectroscopic; Magellanic Clouds; Stars: early type; Stars: evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042354833     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324783     Document Type: Article

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