Listes des étoiles les plus massives

Cet article contient la liste des étoiles les plus massives par ordre décroissant de masse.

Nom de l'étoile	Masse solaire
R136a1	265-320[1]
Peony Nebula Star	175
HD 269810	150
Eta Carinae	150-300
HD 93129A	125
Étoile du Pistolet	80-150
LBV 1806-20	130-200
HD 93129 A + B[2],[3]	A=120, B=80
HD 93250	118
NGC 3603 A1	A=116, B=89
Pismis 24-1 A + B[4],[5]	A=100–120, B=100
Arches cluster[6],[7],[8]	Many stars, 100–130
Pismis 24-17[5]	100
S Doradus	100
Cygnus OB2-12	92
WR20 a + b[9]
Melnick 42[10],[11],[12]	80–100
HD 97950[13],[14]	80
Sk-71 51[15]	80
R 66	70
Companion to M33 X-7[16]	70
LH54-425 A + B[17]	A=62, B=37
Var 83 in M33[18]	60–85
Sher 25 in NGC 3603[19]	60
Zeta1 Scorpii[20]	60
Zeta Puppis[21]	59
WR22[22]	55–74
Plaskett A + B[23],[24]	A=43, B=51
AG Carinae	50
WR102c[25]	45–55
IRS-8*[26]	44.5
HD 5980 A + B[27],[28],[29]	A=40–62, B=30
Epsilon Orionis	40
HD 148937[30],[31]	40
IRAS 05423-7120[15]	40
Rho Cassiopeiae	40
Theta1 Orionis C	40
Xi Persei[32]	40
Companion to NGC300 X-1[33]	38
Cluster R136a	12 stars, all 37–76
Chi2 Orionis[34]	35–40
Companion to IC10 X-1[35]	35
VY Canis Majoris[36],[37]	30–40
Gamma Velorum A	30
P Cygni	30
R 126	30
Zeta Orionis	28
IRS 15[38]	26
VV Cephei	25–40
Alpha Camelopardalis[39],[40]	25–30
6 Cassiopeiae[41],[42]	25
EZ Canis Majoris	25
KY Cygni[43]	25
Mu Cephei	25
V509 Cassiopeiae	25
NGC 7538 S[44]	20–40
Alpha Orionis (Betelgeuse)	20
S Monocerotis A[45]	18–30
WR47	8–48

Références

1. ↑ Paul A. Crowther et al (2010) "The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit", accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Available at arXiv:1007.3284v1 [1]. Advertised in ESO Press Release 1030 [2]
2. ↑ HD 93129A
3. ↑ Big and Giant Stars: HD 93129
4. ↑ HDE 319718 (Pis 24-1) and the Pismis 24 Cluster
5. ↑ ^{a et b} http://spacespin.org/article.php/hubble-massive-star-system-pismis-24-1
6. ↑ Massive Stars in the Arches Cluster
7. ↑ Hubble Weighs In On The Heaviest Stars In The Galaxy
8. ↑ [0711.0657] The most massive stars in the Arches cluster
9. ↑ http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2008/pr-37-08.html
10. ↑ http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/1991/91-008.txt
11. ↑ Energy Citations Database (ECD) - - Document #5225537
12. ↑ Big and Giant Stars: Melnick 42
13. ↑ Big and Giant Stars: HD 97950
14. ↑ Quantitative spectroscopy of Wolf-Rayet stars in HD97950 and R136a - the cores o
15. ↑ ^{a et b} The Blob, the Very Rare Massive Star and the Two Populations - Striking Image of Nebula N214C taken with ESO's NTT at La Silla | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
16. ↑ NASA - Heaviest Stellar Black Hole Discovered in Nearby Galaxy
17. ↑ Big and Giant Stars: LH54-425
18. ↑ Big and Giant Stars: Var 83
19. ↑ Big and Giant Stars: Sher 25
20. ↑ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/zeta1sco.html
21. ↑ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/naos.html
22. ↑ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1995LIACo..32..463R
23. ↑ Big and Giant Stars: Plaskett's Star
24. ↑ Plaskett's Star
25. ↑ http://www.astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de/abstracts/spitzer-andreas.html
26. ↑ Does IRS-8 contain the youngest and most massive star in the Galactic Center? | Gemini Observatory
27. ↑ Big and Giant Stars: HD 5980
28. ↑ ESA - Space Science - First X-ray detection of a colliding-wind binary beyond the Milky Way
29. ↑ http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMPYIO2UXE_index_0.html
30. ↑ http://www.gemini.edu/node/188
31. ↑ http://jumk.de/astronomie/big-stars/hd-148937.shtml
32. ↑ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/menkib.html
33. ↑ http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1544
34. ↑ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/chi2ori.html
35. ↑ http://hera.ph1.uni-koeln.de/~heintzma/Spectra/WR_1.htm
36. ↑ http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/V/VY_Canis_Majoris.html
37. ↑ http://jumk.de/astronomie/big-stars/vy-canis-majoris.shtml
38. ↑ A Remnant Disk around a Young Massive Star
39. ↑ http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061124.html
40. ↑ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/alphacam.html
41. ↑ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/6cas.html
42. ↑ http://jumk.de/astronomie/big-stars/6-cassiopeiae.shtml
43. ↑ http://jumk.de/astronomie/big-stars/ky-cygni.shtml
44. ↑ Witnessing the birth of a massive star
45. ↑ http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/15mon.html