Thursday, January 17, 2019

The most massive binary star known

Weighing Melnick 34: the most massive binary system known

Here we confirm Melnick 34, an X-ray bright star in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, as an SB2 binary comprising WN5h+WN5h components. We present orbital solutions using 26 epochs of VLT/UVES spectra and 22 epochs of archival Gemini/GMOS spectra.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.04769

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