The Progenitor Masses of Wolf-Rayet Stars and Luminous Blue Variables Determined from Cluster Turn-offs. II. Results from 12 Galactic Clusters and OB Associations

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2000-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010654v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Scheduled for the Feb 2001 issue of the Astronomical Journal. Postscript version including figs from ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pu

Scientific paper

10.1086/318769

Here we examine 12 Galactic clusters and OB associations containing Wolf-Rayet stars (W-Rs) and/or Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs), in order to assess the progentor masses of these evolved massive stars. We find that in the Milky Way, early-type WN stars evolve from stars with masses as low as 20Mo. Some early-type WN stars are found in clusters with very high turn-off masses, supporting our earlier results that the "WNE" class of W-Rs is a common stage in the evolution of stars with a wide range of mases. In contrast, the late-type WNs (particularly those of WN7 class) and the LBVs are only found in clusters with the very highest turn-off masses, suggesting that only the most massive stars evolve to these objects. An examination of the environment of the archetype LBV Eta Car reveals that this star is coeval with the rest of the Tr14/16 association, suggesting that its LBV properties is a normal consequence of evolution, and has little to do with the possibility that it is a binary.

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