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The VLT-FLAMES Survey of Massive Stars: Instrumental Stability and Detection of Massive Binaries

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The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop

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We introduce our VLT-FLAMES Large Programme that has observed ∼800 early-type stars in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. The service-mode data sample a wide range of observational epochs, revealing a large number of massive binaries. In the course of disentangling the kinematics of these systems, cross-correlation techniques reveal the excellent wavelength-stability of the FLAMES spectra (±2 km s-1). This stability enables well-constrained orbital parameters to be found.

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  1. UK ATC, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, EH9 3HJ Edinburgh, UK

    C. J. Evans

  2. Isaac Newton Group, Apart. de Correos 321, E-38700, S/Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain

    D. J. Lennon & I. Hunter

  3. Dept. de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, Avda. Astrofísico Francisco, Sánchez, s/n, E-38071 La Laguna, Spain

    D. J. Lennon

  4. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK

    I. Hunter & S. J. Smartt

  5. Nordic Optical Telescope Apart, de Correos 474, E-38700, S/Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain

    T. Augusteijn

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  1. European Southern Observatory (ESO) Alonso de Cordova 3107, Santiago 19, Vitacura, Chile

    Andreas Kaufer

  2. European Southern Observatory (ESO), Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching, Germany

    Florian Kerber

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Evans, C.J., Lennon, D.J., Hunter, I., Augusteijn, T., Smartt, S.J. (2008). The VLT-FLAMES Survey of Massive Stars: Instrumental Stability and Detection of Massive Binaries. In: Kaufer, A., Kerber, F. (eds) The 2007 ESO Instrument Calibration Workshop. ESO Astrophysics Symposia European Southern Observatory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76963-7_6

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