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Investigating 39 Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars with VLTI/GRAVITY: Uncovering A Long Period Binary Desert
K. Deshmukh, H. Sana, A. Mérand +16
Wolf-Rayet stars (WRs) are one of the final evolutionary stages of massive stars and immediate progenitors of stellar-mass black holes. Their multiplicity forms an important anchor…
X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive Stars at low metallicity II. DR1: Advanced optical data products for the Magellanic Clouds
H. Sana, F. Tramper, M. Abdul-Masih +34
Using the medium resolution spectrograph X-shooter, spectra of 235 OB and Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars in sub-solar metallicity environments have been secured. [...]This second paper focu…
Gaia Focused Product Release: Sources from Service Interface Function image analysis -- Half a million new sources in omega Centauri
Gaia Collaboration, K. Weingrill, A. Mints +400
Gaia's readout window strategy is challenged by very dense fields in the sky. Therefore, in addition to standard Gaia observations, full Sky Mapper (SM) images were recorded for ni…
MELCHIORS: The Mercator Library of High Resolution Stellar Spectroscopy
P. Royer, T. Merle, K. Dsilva +71
Over the past decades, libraries of stellar spectra have been used in a large variety of science cases, including as sources of reference spectra for a given object or a given spec…
Gaia Focused Product Release: Radial velocity time series of long-period variables
Gaia Collaboration, M. Trabucchi, N. Mowlavi +403
The third Gaia Data Release (DR3) provided photometric time series of more than 2 million long-period variable (LPV) candidates. Anticipating the publication of full radial-velocit…
X-Shooting ULLYSES: massive stars at low metallicity. I. Project Description
Jorick S. Vink, A. Mehner, P. A. Crowther +78
Observations of individual massive stars, super-luminous supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, and gravitational-wave events involving spectacular black-hole mergers, indicate that the low…
Exploring the influence of different velocity fields on Wolf-Rayet star spectra
Roel R. Lefever, Andreas A. C. Sander, Tomer Shenar +3
Given their strong stellar winds, Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars exhibit emission line spectra that are predominantly formed in expanding atmospheric layers. The description of the wind vel…
A spectroscopic multiplicity survey of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars. III. The northern late-type nitrogen-rich sample
K. Dsilva, T. Shenar, H. Sana +1
Massive stars are powerful cosmic engines. In the phases immediately preceding core-collapse, massive stars in the Galaxy with may appear as classical…
The Nature of Unseen Companions in Massive Single-Line Spectroscopic Binaries
Hugues Sana, Michael Abdul-Masih, Gareth Banyard +14
Massive stars are predominantly found in binaries and higher order multiples. While the period and eccentricity distributions of OB stars are now well established across different…
Investigating the impact of different velocity fields on the spectral appearance of Wolf-Rayet stars
Roel R. Lefever, Tomer Shenar, Andreas A. C. Sander +3
The emission line spectra of WR stars are often formed completely in the optically thick stellar wind. Hence, any assumption on the wind velocity law in a spectral analysis has a p…
WR 63: A multiple system (O+O)+WR ?
A. -N. Chené, L. Mahy, E. Gosset +3
The spectrum of the Wolf-Rayet (WR) star WR 63 contains spectral lines of two different O stars that show regular radial velocity (RV) variations with amplitudes of ~160 and ~225 k…
Identifying quiescent compact objects in massive Galactic single-lined spectroscopic binaries
L. Mahy, H. Sana, T. Shenar +13
Aims. To search for these rare objects, we study 32 Galactic O-type stars that were reported as SB1s in the literature. In our sample we include Cyg X-1, which is known to host an…
Multiple variability time-scales of the early nitrogen-rich Wolf-Rayet star WR7
J. A. Toalá, D. Bowman, T. Van Reeth +7
We present the analysis of the optical variability of the early, nitrogen-rich Wolf-Rayet (WR) star WR7. The analysis of multi-sector Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) l…
A spectroscopic multiplicity survey of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars: II. The northern WNE sequence
K. Dsilva, T. Shenar, H. Sana +1
Most massive stars reside in multiple systems that will interact over the course of their lifetime. Classical Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars represent the final end stages of stellar evolut…
HR 6819 is a binary system with no black hole -- revisiting the source with infrared interferometry and optical integral field spectroscopy
A. J. Frost, J. Bodensteiner, Th. Rivinius +16
Two scenarios have been proposed to match the existing observational constraints of the object HR 6819. The system could consist of a close inner B-type giant plus a black hole (BH…
The Tarantula Massive Binary Monitoring V. R 144: a wind-eclipsing binary with a total mass > 140 Msun
T. Shenar, H. Sana, P. Marchant +21
R 144 is the visually brightest WR star in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). R 144 was reported to be a binary, making it potentially the most massive binary thus observed. We perf…
Characterization of the variability in the O+B eclipsing binary HD 165246
Cole Johnston, Nicolas Aimar, Michael Abdul-Masih +8
O-stars are known to experience a wide range of variability mechanisms originating at both their surface and their near-core regions. Characterization and understanding of this var…
A spectroscopic multiplicity survey of Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars. I. The northern WC sequence
Karan Dsilva, Tomer Shenar, Hugues Sana +1
It is now well established that the majority of massive stars reside in multiple systems. However, the effect of multiplicity is not sufficiently understood, resulting in a plethor…
Is HR 6819 a triple system containing a black hole? -- An alternative explanation
J. Bodensteiner, T. Shenar, L. Mahy +10
HR 6819 was recently proposed to be a triple system consisting of an inner B-type giant + black hole binary with an orbital period of 40d and an outer Be tertiary. This interpretat…
The 'hidden' companion in LB-1 unveiled by spectral disentangling
T. Shenar, J. Bodensteiner, M. Abdul-Masih +9
The intriguing binary LS V +22 25 (LB-1) has drawn much attention following claims of it being a single-lined spectroscopic binary with a 79-day orbit comprising a B-type star and…
No signature of the orbital motion of a putative 70 solar mass black hole in LB-1
Michael Abdul-Masih, Gareth Banyard, Julia Bodensteiner +13
Liu et al. (2019) recently reported the detection of a 68 [+11/-13] solar mass (Msun) black hole (BH) paired with an 8.2 [+0.9/-1.2] Msun B-type sub-giant star in the 78.9-day spec…
A systematic survey of grain growth in discs around post-AGB binaries with PACS and SPIRE photometry
Karan Dsilva, Hans Van Winckel, Jacques Kluska
Post-AGB stars are the final stage of evolution of low-intermediate mass stars (M<8 Solar Masses). Those in binary systems have stable circumbinary discs. Using data from Herschel…