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2007ApJ...660.1480M - Astrophys. J., 660, 1480-1485 (2007/May-2)

Pismis 24-1: the stellar upper mass limit preserved.

MAIZ-APELLANIZ J., WALBORN N.R., MORRELL N.I., NIEMELA V.S. and NELAN E.P.

Abstract (from CDS):

Is there a stellar upper mass limit? Recent statistical work seems to indicate that there is and that it is in the vicinity of 150 M☉. In this paper we use HST and ground-based data to investigate the brightest members of the cluster Pismis 24, one of which (Pismis 24-1) was previously inferred to have a mass greater than 200 M☉, in apparent disagreement with that limit. We determine that Pismis 24-1 is composed of at least three objects, the resolved Pismis 24-1SW and the unresolved spectroscopic binary Pismis 24-1NE. The evolutionary zero-age masses of Pismis 24-1SW, the unresolved system Pismis 24-1NE, and the nearby star Pismis 24-17 are all ~100 M☉, very large but under the stellar upper mass limit.

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Journal keyword(s): Stars: Binaries: Close - Stars: Early-Type - Stars: Fundamental Parameters - stars: individual (Pismis 24-17) - stars: individual (Pismis 24-1NW (read: NAME Cl Pismis 24-1NE)) - stars: individual (Pismis 24-1SE (read: NAME Cl Pismis 24-1SW))

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