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Massive stars and their interstellar environment in the Magellanic Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Michael A. Dopita
Affiliation:
Mt. Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatory, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Australia,
Sungeun Kim*
Affiliation:
Mt. Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatory, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Australia,
M. Sally Oey
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
Tatyana M. Lozinskaya
Affiliation:
Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia
*
4Present address: Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Abstract

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The winds of massive stars play a major role in setting up and controlling both the phase structure of the interstellar medium in galaxies and the vertical distribution of gas in galactic disks. In turn, these processes provide feedback into control of the star formation rate. Thanks to their proximity, these processes can be studied in detail in the Magellanic Clouds. Here we describe the results of a deep emission-line image survey of the ring nebula population, and a global high-resolution H I and H II survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud. These data provide a new insight into the process of feedback between the disk and the halo gas in disk galaxies in general, and the LMC in particular.

Type
Part 4. Wolf-Rayet stars and other hot massive stars in the Galactic Center and in Local Group giant H II regions (individual stars)
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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