ESO DOI Service

• Evans, Chris [UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh, UK]
• Lennon, Daniel [Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain]
• Langer, Norbert [Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany; Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn, Germany]
• Almeida, Leonardo [Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil]
• Bartlett, Elizabeth [UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh, UK]
• Bastian, Nate [Liverpool John Moores University, UK]
• Bestenlehner, Joachim [University of Sheffield, UK]
• Britavskiy, Nikolay [Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain]
• Castro, Norberto [AIP, Potsdam, Germany]
• Clark, Simon [The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK]
• Crowther, Paul [University of Sheffield, UK]
• de Koter, Alex [University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; KU Leuven, Belgium]
• de Mink, Selma [CfA, Harvard-Smithsonian, Cambridge, MA, USA]
• Dufton, Philip [Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland]
• Fossati, Luca [IWF, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria]
• Garcia, Miriam [CAB, CSIC-INTA, Madrid, Spain]
• Gieles, Mark [ICCUB-IEEC, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; ICREA, Barcelona, Spain]
• Gräfener, Götz [Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn, Germany]
• Grin, Nathan [Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn, Germany]
• Hénault-Brunet, Vincent [Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada]
• Herrero, Artemio [Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain]
• Howarth, Ian [University College London, UK]
• Izzard, Robert [University of Surrey, UK]
• Kalari, Venu [Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Gemini Observatory, La Serena, Chile]
• Maíz Apellániz, Jesús [CAB, CSIC-INTA, Madrid, Spain]
• Markova, Nevena [National Astronomical Observatory, Smolyan, Bulgaria]
• Najarro, Francisco [CAB, CSIC-INTA, Madrid, Spain]
• Patrick, Lee [Universidad de Alicante, Spain]
• Puls, Joachim [USM, Munich, Germany]
• Ramírez-Agudelo, Oscar [German Aerospace Center (DLR), IPTI, Sankt Augustin, Germany]
• Renzo, Mathieu [CCA, Flatiron Institute, New York, USA]
• Sabín-Sanjulián, Carolina [Universidad de La Serena, Chile]
• Sana, Hugues [KU Leuven, Belgium]
• Schneider, Fabian [Centre for Astronomy, University of Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany]
• Schootemeijer, Abel [Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn, Germany]
• Simón-Díaz, Sergio [Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain; Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain]
• Smartt, Stephen [Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland]
• Taylor, William [UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh, UK]
• Tramper, Frank [National Observatory of Athens, Greece]
• van Loon, Jacco [Keele University, UK]
• Villaseñor, Jaime [IfA, University of Edinburgh, UK]
• Vink, Jorick S. [Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, Northern Ireland]
• Walborn, Nolan [Deceased, included with kind permission of Laura Etchemaite-Walborn]

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey (VFTS) was an ESO Large Programme that has provided a rich, legacy dataset for studies of both resolved and integrated populations of massive stars. Initiated in 2008 (ESO Period 82), we used the Fibre Large Array Multi Element Spectrograph (FLAMES) to observe more than 800 massive stars in the dramatic 30 Doradus star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. At the start of the survey the importance of multiplicity among high-mass stars was becoming evident, so a key feature was multi-epoch spectroscopy to detect radial-velocity shifts arising from binary motion. Here we summarise some of the highlights from the survey and look ahead to the future of the field.