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Pair-Instability Supernovae in the Local Universe
Daniel J. Whalen, Wesley Even, Joseph Smidt +7
The discovery of 150 - 300 M stars in the Local Group and pair-instability supernova candidates at low redshifts has excited interest in this exotic explosion mechanism.…
The Biggest Explosions in the Universe
Jarrett L. Johnson, Daniel J. Whalen, Wesley Even +4
Supermassive primordial stars are expected to form in a small fraction of massive protogalaxies in the early universe, and are generally conceived of as the progenitors of the seed…
Very Massive Stars (VMS) in the Local Universe
Jorick S. Vink, Alexander Heger, Mark R. Krumholz +25
Recent studies have claimed the existence of very massive stars (VMS) up to 300 solar masses in the local Universe. As this finding may represent a paradigm shift for the canonical…