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VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey

(VFTS)
(VLT spectroscopic survey of massive stars)

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS) is a 2008/2009 spectroscopic survey of 900+ massive stars in the 30 Doradus region (i.e., Tarantula Nebula, an HII region) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) that as carried out with the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope FLAMES spectrograph.


(survey,stars,LMC)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_Nebula
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020Msngr.181...22E/abstract
https://www.roe.ac.uk/~cje/tarantula/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017IAUS..329..279V/abstract
Coordinates:VFTS
J053838-690542
PrefixExample  
VFTSVFTS 682 

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