An overview is provided of the scientific goals of the Magellanic Cloud component of the STScI Directors Discretionary UV initiative ULLYSES, together with the complementary spectroscopic survey XShootU (VLT/Xshooter) and other ancillary datasets. Together, ULLYSES and XShootU permit the first comprehensive, homogeneous study of wind densities and velocities in metal-poor massive stars, plus UV/optical spectroscopic libraries for population synthesis models and a large number of interstellar sight-lines towards the Magellanic Clouds.
@article{arxiv.2207.08690,
title = {ULLYSES and Complementary Surveys of Massive Stars in the Magellanic Clouds},
author = {Paul A Crowther},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.08690},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
10 pages, 9 figures, review paper for IAU Symp 361 "Massive Stars Near and Far" (eds. Nicole St-Louis, Jorick Vink, Jonathan Mackey)