4 papers
Maximum Black Hole mass across Cosmic Time
Jorick S. Vink, Erin R. Higgins, Andreas A. C. Sander +1
At the end of its life, a very massive star is expected to collapse into a black hole. The recent detection of an 85 Msun black hole from the gravitational wave event GW 190521 app…
A theoretical investigation of the Humphreys-Davidson limit at high and low metallicity
Erin R. Higgins, Jorick S. Vink
Current massive star evolution grids are not able to simultaneously reproduce the empirical upper luminosity limit of red supergiants, the Humphrey-Davidson (HD) limit at high and…
Massive star evolution : rotation, winds, and overshooting vectors in the Mass-Luminosity plane I. A calibrated grid of rotating single star models
Erin R. Higgins, Jorick S. Vink
We aim to constrain massive star evolution models using the unique testbed eclipsing binary HD166734 with new grids of MESA stellar evolution models, adopting calibrated prescripti…
Massive star evolution revealed in the Mass-Luminosity plane
Erin R. Higgins, Jorick S. Vink
Massive star evolution is dominated by key physical processes such as mass loss, convection and rotation, yet these effects are poorly constrained, even on the main sequence. We ut…