The VLT-FLAMES
Tarantula Survey

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey is a European Southern Observatory (ESO) Large Programme, to observe 1,000 massive stars in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The VLT-FLAMES instrument is being used to obtain multi-epoch spectroscopy of each star.

The primary objectives of the survey are:
• To quantify the role of rotationally-induced mixing in massive O-type stars.
• To elucidate the role of binarity/multiplicity on the evolution of massive stars.
• To investigate the effects of mass segregation/cluster mortality.

A short summary of the project was given in Estrela D'Alva at the IAU GA: JPG copy / Full copy