It has been traditionally stated that it is not possible to use optical/NIR photometry to measure the temperatures of O stars. In this contribution we describe the steps required to overcome the hurdles that have prevented this from happening in the past and we present our preliminary results for the low-extinction case.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0702516,
title = {Towards using optical/NIR photometry to measure the temperature of O stars},
author = {J. Maíz Apellániz and A. Sota},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0702516},
year = {2007}
}
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2 pages, to appear in Massive Stars: Fundamental Parameters and Circumstellar Interactions