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The Red Supergiant Content of the Local Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2017

Philip Massey Open the ORCID record for Philip Massey [Opens in a new window] ,
Emily Levesque ,
Kathryn Neugent Open the ORCID record for Kathryn Neugent [Opens in a new window] ,
Kate Evans ,
Maria Drout  and
Madeleine Beck
Philip Massey
Affiliation:
Lowell Observatory, 1400 W Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 and Dept. Physics & Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6010 email: phil.massey@lowell.edu, kneugent@lowell.edu
Emily Levesque
Affiliation:
Dept. Astronomy, University of Washington, Box 351580, Seattle, WA 98195USA email: emsque@uw.edu
Kathryn Neugent
Affiliation:
Lowell Observatory, 1400 W Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 and Dept. Physics & Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6010 email: phil.massey@lowell.edu, kneugent@lowell.edu
Kate Evans
Affiliation:
Lowell Observatory, 1400 W Mars Hill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 and Dept. Physics & Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6010 email: phil.massey@lowell.edu, kneugent@lowell.edu REU participant, 2015; California Institute of Technology, 1200 E, California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125USA email: kevans@caltech.edu
Maria Drout
Affiliation:
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara St., Pasadena, CA 91101, USA email: mdrout@carnegiescience.edu
Madeleine Beck
Affiliation:
REU participant, 2016; Wellesley College, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481USA email: mbeck4@wellesley.edu
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Abstract

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We summarize here recent work in identifying and characterizing red supergiants (RSGs) in the galaxies of the Local Group.

Keywords

stars: early typesupergiantsstars: Wolf-Rayet
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 12 , Symposium S329: The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars , November 2016 , pp. 161 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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