Discovery of O stars in the tidal Magellanic Bridge Stellar parameters, abundances, and feedback of the nearest metal-poor massive stars and their implication for the Magellanic System ecology

• Published in: Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin) Vol. 646; p. A16
• Main Authors: Ramachandran, V., Oskinova, L. M., Hamann, W.-R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.02.2021

The Magellanic Bridge, stretching between the Small and the Large Magellanic Cloud (SMC and LMC), is the nearest tidally stripped intergalactic environment. The Bridge has a significantly low average metallicity of Z  ≲ 0.1  Z ⊙ . Here we report the first discovery of O-type stars in the Magellanic...