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Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) high signal to noise spectrograms were obtained for 15 OB stars in the Magellanic Clouds***, three of which are of spectral type O3. The data cover the spectral region from 1150 A – 2300 A with a resolution of Δλ/λ≈1 A. One O8.5 supergiant, OB78#231, in M31‡is also included in this work. These data are a substantial improvement on previous high resolution IUE observations in the Magellanic Clouds (Walborn et al. 1985 and references therein) because of the smaller aperture and the much better signal to noise ratio, while no high resolution UV spectra of O stars in M31 have been obtained before. In this paper we discuss various morphological aspects of the spectra, concerning metallicity and the stellar winds, compared to galactic analogues.
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Haser, S.M., Lennon, D.J., Kudritzki, R.P. et al. Hubble Space Telescope spectroscopy of massive hot stars in the Magellanic Clouds and M31. Space Sci Rev 66, 179–182 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00771060
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