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Stellar age determination in the Mass-Luminosity Plane
Erin R. Higgins, Jorick S. Vink
The ages of stars have historically relied on isochrone fitting of standardised grids of models. While these stellar models have provided key constraints on observational samples o…
Superadiabaticity and the metallicity independence of the Humphreys-Davidson limit
Gautham N. Sabhahit, Jorick S. Vink, Erin R. Higgins +1
The Humphreys-Davidson (HD) limit sets the boundary between evolutionary channels of massive stars that either end their lives as red supergiants (RSGs) or as the hotter blue super…
Evolution of Wolf-Rayet stars as black hole progenitors
Erin R. Higgins, Andreas A. C. Sander, Jorick S. Vink +1
Evolved Wolf-Rayet stars form a key aspect of massive star evolution, and their strong outflows determine their final fates. In this study, we calculate grids of stellar models for…
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…