Locations of Luminous Blue Variables in Host Clusters

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Jan 2011

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #338.18; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We review the current body of literature concerning the environments of Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs), focusing on five LBVs and LBV candidates located in young massive clusters. Although mass segregation theories suggest that these massive stars should be located in the cores of their natal clusters, our analyses reveal that four out of five of these rare, massive objects lie on the outskirts of their hosts and that chance alone cannot account for this anomaly. We discuss the impact of this finding on massive star and star cluster formation theories and propose future work that may increase the number of LBVs with established membership in a cluster.

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