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A not so massive cluster hosting a very massive star

arXiv:1510.01939

Abstract

We present the first physical characterization of the young open cluster VVV CL041. We spectroscopically observed the cluster main-sequence stellar population and a very-massive star candidate: WR62-2. CMFGEN modeling to our near-infrared spectra indicates that WR62-2 is a very luminous (10$^{6.4\pm0.2} L_{\odot}$) and massive ($\sim80 M_{\odot}$) star.

1 page, 1 figure, to be published in the "International Workshop on Wolf-Rayet Stars conference proceedings" by Universitätsverlag Potsdam (editors: W.-R. Hamann, A. Sander, and H. Todt)