Massive stars, successes and challenges

Abstract

We give a brief overview of where we stand with respect to some old and new questions bearing on how massive stars evolve and end their lifetime. We focus on the following key points that are further discussed by other contributions during this conference: convection, mass losses, rotation, magnetic field and multiplicity. For purpose of clarity, each of these processes are discussed on its own but we have to keep in mind that they are all interacting between them offering a large variety of outputs, some of them still to be discovered.

12 pages, 3 figures, IAU Symposium 329, The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Stars, Auckland, 2016

References in corpus (19)

• Binary interaction dominates the evolution of massive stars
• Mass loss from hot massive stars
• BPASS predictions for Binary Black-Hole Mergers
• Rotational mixing in massive binaries: detached short-period systems
• Dynamical Simulations of Magnetically Channeled Line-Driven Stellar Winds: II. The Effects of Field-Aligned Rotation
• Dynamical Simulations of Magnetically Channeled Line-Driven Stellar Winds: III. Angular Momentum Loss and Rotational Spindown
• The MiMeS survey of magnetism in massive stars: Magnetic analysis of the O-type stars
• The Galactic WC stars: Stellar parameters from spectral analyses indicate a new evolutionary sequence
• A strong case for fast stellar rotation at very low metallicities
• The impact of mass-loss on the evolution and pre-supernova properties of red supergiants
• Magnetic massive stars as progenitors of "heavy" stellar-mass black holes
• The MiMeS Survey of Magnetism in Massive Stars: CNO surface abundances of Galactic O stars
• The WR population predicted by massive single star and by massive binary evolution
• On the proper use of the Schwarzschild and Ledoux criteria in stellar evolution computations
• Constraining the efficiency of angular momentum transport with asteroseismology of red giants: the effect of stellar mass
• Possible pair-instability supernovae at solar metallicity from magnetic stellar progenitors
• The chemical composition of Galactic ring nebulae around massive stars
• Key Issues Review: Numerical studies of turbulence in stars
• Mixing of CNO-cycled matter in massive stars

Cited by in corpus (3)

• The Red Supergiant Content of M31 and M33
• The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey: XXVIII. Nitrogen abundances for apparently single dwarf and giant B-type stars with small projected rotational velocities
• Studies of Evolved Stars in the Next Decade: EAO Submillimetre Futures White Paper Series, 2019