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Table 1
Literature used to select the 1145 photometric candidates and classify the 500 spectroscopically confirmed hot luminous stars in the census.
| Source of photometry | Candidates | Confirmed (in R136) |
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| De Marchi et al. (2011) | 212 | 70 (70) |
| Selman et al. (1999) | 200 | 123 (2) |
| WFI (Paper I) | 518 | 196 (0) |
| Parker (1993) | 71 | 42 (0) |
| CTIO (Paper I) | 126 | 57 (0) |
| Walborn et al. (1999) | 15 | 10 (0) |
| Zaritsky et al. (2004) | 3 | 1 (0) |
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| Source of spectral type | Confirmed (in R136) | |
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| Schild & Testor (1992) | 7 (0) | |
| Parker (1993) | 3 (0) | |
| Walborn & Blades (1997) | 8 (0) | |
| Massey & Hunter (1998) | 38 (38) | |
| Crowther & Dessart (1998) | 8 (8) | |
| Bosch et al. (1999) | 24 (0) | |
| Walborn et al. (1999) | 9 (0) | |
| Breysacher et al. (1999) | 3 (0) | |
| Evans et al. (2011) / Paper I | (VFTS) | 16 (1) |
| Taylor et al. (2011) | (VFTS) | 1 (0) |
| Dufton et al. (2011) | (VFTS) | 1 (0) |
| Crowther & Walborn (2011) | 7 (6) | |
| Hénault-Brunet et al. (2012a) | (VFTS) | 15 (14) |
| (Walborn et al., in prep.) | (VFTS) | 295 (5) |
| (McEvoy et al., in prep.) | (VFTS) | 35 (0) |
| This work | (VFTS) | 30 (0) |
Notes. The number in brackets represents those located within the R136 region. Papers which form part of the VFTS series are identified with “(VFTS)”.
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