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most citedVery Massive Stars in the Local Universe

72 citations · 302 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.SR2018★ 35 cited

Massive stars in the hinterland of the young cluster, Westerlund 2

J. E. Drew, A. Herrero, M. Mohr-Smith +4

An unsettled question concerning the formation and distribution of massive stars is whether they must be born in massive clusters and, if found in less dense environments, whether…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 72 cited

Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe

Jorick S. Vink

Recent studies suggest the existence of very massive stars (VMS) up to 300 solar masses in the local Universe. As this finding may represent a paradigm shift for the canonical stel…

astro-ph.SR2013★ 23 cited

Very Massive Stars (VMS) in the Local Universe

Jorick S. Vink, Alexander Heger, Mark R. Krumholz +25

Recent studies have claimed the existence of very massive stars (VMS) up to 300 solar masses in the local Universe. As this finding may represent a paradigm shift for the canonical…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 70 cited

The ARAUCARIA project: Grid-Based Quantitative Spectroscopic Study of Massive Blue Stars in NGC55

N. Castro, M. A. Urbaneja, A. Herrero +6

The quantitative study of the physical properties and chemical abundances of large samples of massive blue stars at different metallicities is a powerful tool to understand the nat…

astro-ph.SR2011★ 67 cited

The IACOB project: A grid-based automatic tool for the quantitative spectroscopic analysis of O-stars

S. Simón-Díaz, N. Castro, A. Herrero +3

We present the IACOB grid-based automatic tool for the quantitative spectroscopic analysis of O-stars. The tool consists of an extensive grid of FASTWIND models, and a variety of p…