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Table 5:

Summary of confirmed and candidate WNLh binaries in young open clusters.
Cluster Age Total RV Binaries
  (Myr)   survey Confirmed Candidates
NGC3603 1.3 $\pm$ 0.3 3 3 2 0
Carina 1.5 $\pm$ 0.5 3 3 2 0
HM-1 2.2 $\pm$ 0.5 2 0 - 0
NGC6231 2.7 $\pm$ 0.5 1 0 - 0
Arches 2.5 $\pm$ 0.5 13 0 - 3
Wd 2 2.6 $\pm$ 0.2 2 1 1 1
Bochum 7 2.8 $\pm$ 0.5 1 1 1 0
R136/30 Dor >2 23 23 8 1
Total   48 31 14 5

The cluster list follows that of Crowther et al. (2006), supplemented with the WNLh rich Arches (Figer et al. 2002) and 30 Dor (Walborn & Blades 1989) clusters. Column 4 summarises the number of stars in each cluster for which a RV survey has been carried out. Confirmed binaries were identified via photometric or spectroscopic evidence, while candidate binaries were selected if $L_{\rm x} \geq 10^{34}$ erg s-1 and/or kT >4 keV, noting that such strict criteria would exclude known spectroscopic binaries such as WR20a and WR22 (Table 4). Given the different sensitivities of current RV and X-ray surveys (e.g. Pollock 1987; Pollock et al. 1995; Ignace et al. 2000; Oskinova 2005) we present results for individual clusters.


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