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A UBVR CCD Survey of the Magellanic Clouds

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We present photometry and a preliminary interpretation of a UBVR survey of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. We determine improved values for the relative number of blue and red supergiants. We also compare the relative number of Red Supergiants (RSGs) and Wolf-Rayet stars, demonstrating a strong, tight correlation with metallicity, and reinvestigate the initial mass function slope of massive stars found in the field.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0110531,
  title  = {A UBVR CCD Survey of the Magellanic Clouds},
  author = {Philip Massey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0110531},
  year   = {2009}
}

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complete postscript (including embedded figures) can be found at: ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/massey/mcatlas.ps.gz Accepted for publication in the ApJS