X-SHOOTING ULLYSES: THE PHYSICS OF MASSIVE STARS AT LOW METALLICITY

Creators
  • Vink, Jorick S.
Publication Year
2024
Publisher
European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Resource Type
Dataset/Dataset
Descriptions
Abstract: The X-Shooting ULLYSES project (XShootU, 106.211Z) aims to provide near-UV to near-IR spectra for the massive stars targeted by the HST Director’s Discretionary programme ULLYSES (https://ullyses.stsci.edu/). The goal of ULLYSES is to understand the physics and evolution of massive stars at low metallicity (Z) by having devoted 500 orbits to observe ∼250 massive stars at low Z in the ultraviolet (UV) with the COS and STIS spectrographs. The complementary XShootU project provides an enhanced legacy value with high-quality optical and near-infrared spectra obtained with the wide-wavelength coverage of the X-shooter spectrograph at ESO's Very Large Telescope. The first public data release (DR1) contains UVB and VIS X-Shooter spectra of 232 massive stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC, SMC). Additional data releases include NIR data products for the same stars, and extension of the sample with sub-SMC metallicity stars, ULLYSES stars with archival XShooter data that were excluded from the large programme, and ULLYSES+ stars.
Other: This is a dynamic dataset; it is growing as new data is added. The DOI refers to the newest available dataset.
Contributors
ContactPerson: Vink, Jorick S.
ContactPerson: Sana, Hugues
ContactPerson: Tramper, Frank
ContactPerson: Mehner, Andrea
Subjects
collection_name:XShootU collection_type:Large Programme instrument:XSHOOTER

Related Identifiers
References: https://archive.eso.org (URL)
Dates
Issued: 2024-10-25

Format
FITS