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Gaia and HST astrometry of the very massive 150 candidate runaway star VFTS682
M. Renzo, S. E. de Mink, D. J. Lennon +12
How very massive stars form is still an open question in astrophysics. VFTS682 is among the most massive stars known, with an inferred initial mass of 150 . It is l…
Pulsational pair-instability supernovae in very close binaries
Pablo Marchant, Mathieu Renzo, Robert Farmer +4
Pair-instability and pulsational pair-instability supernovae (PPISN) have not been unambiguously observed so far. They are, however, promising candidates for the progenitors of the…
Host galaxies of SNe Ic-BL with and without long gamma-ray bursts
J. Japelj, S. D. Vergani, R. Salvaterra +5
Broad-line Ic supernovae (SNe Ic-BL) are a very rare class of core-collapse supernovae exhibiting high ejecta velocities and high kinetic energies. They are the only type of SNe th…
Gaia DR2 reveals a very massive runaway star ejected from R136
D. J. Lennon, C. J. Evans, R. P. van der Marel +14
A previous spectroscopic study identified the very massive O2 III star VFTS 16 in the Tarantula Nebula as a runaway star based on its peculiar line-of-sight velocity. We use the Ga…
On the formation history of Galactic double neutron stars
Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Coenraad J. Neijssel, Simon Stevenson +9
Double neutron stars (DNSs) have been observed as Galactic radio pulsars, and the recent discovery of gravitational waves from the DNS merger GW170817 adds to the known DNS populat…
Massive runaways and walkaway stars
M. Renzo, E. Zapartas, S. E. de Mink +6
Anticipating the kinematic constraints from the Gaia mission, we perform an extensive numerical study of the evolution of massive binary systems to predict the peculiar velocities…
Spectral models for binary products: Unifying Subdwarfs and Wolf-Rayet stars as a sequence of stripped-envelope stars
Y. Götberg, S. E. de Mink, J. H. Groh +4
Stars stripped of their envelope through interaction in a binary are generally not considered when accounting for ionizing radiation from stellar populations, despite the expectati…