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The Magellanic Clouds represent the best laboratories to study the metallicity effect on the late evolution of massive stars. The low ambient metallicity is expected to lower the mass-loss rate by stellar winds. Therefore, it increases the minimum mass to form Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars. Binarity is then expected to be responsible of the formation of a large fraction of WR stars in the Magellanic Clouds. We present here the rationale behind a systematic search for radial velocity variations in a subsample of WR stars both in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Some very preliminary results of this study are also presented and discussed.
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Foellmi, C., Moffat, A.F.J. (2001). Systematic Search for Wolf-Rayet Binaries in the Magellanic Clouds: Preliminary Results. In: Vanbeveren, D. (eds) The Influence of Binaries on Stellar Population Studies. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 264. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9723-4_12
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