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20162026
most citedExploring the connection between atmosphere models and evolution models of very massive stars

9 citations · 30 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

The Treasury of Extremely Metal-Poor O Stars

O. Grace Telford, Christiana Erba, Kristen B. W. McQuinn +10

The Treasury of Extremely Metal-Poor O Stars (TEMPOS) is a Hubble Space Telescope survey of hot and massive O-type stars in nearby, low-metallicity galaxies (20% of the s…

astro-ph.SR2026

The winds of OBA hypergiants and luminous blue variables: Dynamically-consistent atmosphere models reveal multiple wind regimes

Matheus Bernini-Peron, Andreas A. C. Sander, Gautham N. Sabhahit +3

OBA hypergiants (OBAHGs) are evolved massive stars with notable wind features in their optical spectrum. Located at the cool edge of the line-driven wind regime, many are candidate…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 2 cited

Dynamically consistent analysis of Galactic WN4b stars

Roel R. Lefever, Andreas A. C. Sander, Matheus Bernini-Peron +6

Many Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars have optically thick winds that cloak the hydrostatic layers of the underlying star. In these cases, traditional spectral analysis methods are plagued by…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 2 cited

Ultraviolet spectroscopy reveals a hot and luminous companion to the Be star+black hole candidate MWC 656

Johanna Müller-Horn, Varsha Ramachandran, Kareem El-Badry +11

The Galactic Be star binary MWC 656 was long considered the only known Be star+black hole (BH) system, making it a critical benchmark for models of massive binary evolution and for…

astro-ph.SR2025

Characterizing the Low-Mass Pre-Main-Sequence Population in the Low-Metallicity Star-Forming Region Dolidze 25 Using VLT-MUSE

Mizna Ashraf, Jessy Jose, Gregory J. Herczeg +6

The metallicity of the star-forming environment is a fundamental parameter shaping the evolution of protoplanetary disks and the formation of planetary systems, yet its influence r…

astro-ph.SR2025

Discovery of a new transitional type of evolved massive stars with hard ionizing flux

Andreas A. C. Sander, Roel R. Lefever, Joris Josiek +12

Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are the evolved descendants of the most massive stars and show emission-line dominated spectra formed in their powerful stellar winds. Marking the final evolu…

astro-ph.SR2025

Minimum and maximum mass-luminosity relations for stripped stars

Gautham N. Sabhahit, Jorick S. Vink, Andreas A. C. Sander +1

Envelope stripping, whether through single-star wind mass loss or binary mass transfer, is a key evolutionary pathway for the formation of classical Wolf-Rayet stars and lower-mass…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

Metal-poor single Wolf-Rayet stars: The interplay of optically thick winds and rotation

Lumen Boco, Michela Mapelli, Andreas A. C. Sander +7

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) hosts 12 known Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars, seven of which are apparently single. Their formation is a challenge for current stellar evolution models bec…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 9 cited

Exploring the connection between atmosphere models and evolution models of very massive stars

Joris Josiek, Andreas A. C. Sander, Matheus Bernini-Peron +6

Very massive stars (VMS) dominate the light of young stellar populations and are sources of intense stellar feedback. Their evolution is mainly driven by strong wind mass loss, yet…

astro-ph.SR2025

New empirical mass-loss recipe for UV radiation line-driven winds of hot stars across various metallicities

D. Pauli, L. M. Oskinova, W. -R. Hamann +7

The winds of massive stars remove a significant fraction of their mass, strongly impacting their evolution. As a star evolves, the rate at which it loses mass changes. In stellar e…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 7 cited

X-Shooting ULLYSES: massive stars at low metallicity: XII. The clumped winds of O-type (super)giants in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Sarah A. Brands, Frank Backs, Alex de Koter +23

Mass loss governs the evolution of massive stars and shapes the stellar surroundings. To quantify the impact of the stellar winds we need to know the exact mass-loss rates; however…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 1 cited

Observations of Extremely Metal-Poor O Stars: Weak Winds and Constraints for Evolution Models

O. Grace Telford, John Chisholm, Andreas A. C. Sander +3

Metal-poor massive stars drive the evolution of low-mass galaxies, both locally and at high redshift. However, quantifying the feedback they impart to their local surroundings rema…

astro-ph.GA2024

Hydrodynamic simulation of Cygnus OB2: the absence of a cluster wind termination shock

Thibault Vieu, Cormac J. K. Larkin, Lucia Härer +3

We perform a large-scale hydrodynamic simulation of a massive star cluster whose stellar population mimics that of the Cygnus OB2 association. The main-sequence stars are first sim…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 5 cited

Testing massive star evolution, star-formation history, and feedback at low metallicity: Photometric analysis of OB stars in the SMC Wing

Leah M. Fulmer, John S. Gallagher, Wolf-Rainer Hamann +2

The supergiant ionized shell SMC-SGS 1 (DEM 167), located in the outer Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), resembles structures that originate from an energetic star-formatio…

astro-ph.SR2016

Radio and infrared study of the star forming region IRAS 20286+4105

Varsha R, S. R. Das, A. Tej +3

A multi-wavelength investigation of the star forming complex IRAS 20286+4105, located in the Cygnus-X region, is presented here. Near-infrared K-band data is used to revisit the cl…