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- From: metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern)
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- Subject: Re: A super-blue branch of super-massive stars?
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- Date: 18 Aug 92 03:14:31 GMT
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- fischer@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Phil Fischer) writes:
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- > how do you explain that we don't see supermassive stars nearby (i.e. in the
- > galaxy, in the LMC). That is, in an unredshifted sense.
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- Small dwarf galaxies generally don't produce supermassive stars. The
- best candidates would be relatively blue galaxies with lots of young O-stars.
- Apparently M87 is the most prolific producer among "nearby" galaxies.
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