NEW O3 GIANTS IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD

Detailed spectral classifications and remarks are given for seven recently discovered, very early stars of high luminosity in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Three of them are definitely of type O3 III(f*), with weak N iv emission and N v absorption, bringing to five the number of objects in that category, all of them in the Magellanic Clouds; an illustration of their spectra is presented. One definite and two possible O3 objects are located together with several later O-type stars in the remarkable cluster NGC 2122, for which an identification chart is given.