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astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Can Wolf-Rayet stars be the missing ingredient to explain high-z He II ionizing radiation?

G. González-Torà, A. A. C. Sander, E. Egorova +7

Classical Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are hot, massive stars with depleted hydrogen. At low metallicities (Z), WN3-type WR stars have relatively thin winds and are major sources of ioniz…

astro-ph.GA2025

SDSS-V LVM: Detectability of Wolf-Rayet stars and their He II ionizing flux in low-metallicity environments I. The weak-lined, early-type WN3 stars in the SMC

G. González-Torà, A. A. C. Sander, E. Egorova +18

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is the nearest low-metallicity dwarf galaxy. Its proximity and low reddening has enabled us to detect its Wolf-Rayet (WR) star population with 12 k…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 22 cited

A high fraction of close massive binary stars at low metallicity

H. Sana, T. Shenar, J. Bodensteiner +74

At high metallicity, a majority of massive stars have at least one close stellar companion. The evolution of such binaries is subject to strong interaction processes, heavily impac…

astro-ph.SR2025

Hidden massive eclipsing binaries in red supergiant systems: The hierarchical triple system KQ Puppis and other candidates

D. Jadlovský, L. Molnár, A. Ercolino +26

The majority of massive stars are part of binary systems that may interact during their evolution. However, not many RSGs are known binaries, and only a few have constrained orbita…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 2 cited

Near-Eddington mass loss of hydrogen-rich Wolf-Rayet stars

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

Context. Very massive clusters and regions of intense star formation such as the center of our Milky Way contain young, hydrogen-burning stars very close to the Eddington Limit. Fo…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 4 cited

X-Shooting ULLYSES: Massive stars at low metallicity. XIII. Putting the bi-stability jump to the test in the LMC

T. Alkousa, P. A. Crowther, J. M. Bestenlehner +10

We aim to investigate the theoretical bi-stability jump, which predicts an increase in mass-loss rates below 21 kK. We further aim to constrain the photospheric and wind parameters…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 3 cited

Improving 1D stellar atmosphere models with insights from multi-dimensional simulations II. 1D versus 3D hydrodynamically consistent model comparison for WR stars

G. González-Torà, A. A. C. Sander, N. Moens +8

Classical Wolf-Rayet (cWR) stars are evolved massive stars that have lost most of their H envelope and exhibit dense, extended atmospheres with strong, line-driven winds. Accuratel…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 14 cited

Comprehensive UV and Optical spectral analysis of Cygnus X-1: Stellar and wind parameters, abundances, and evolutionary implications

V. Ramachandran, A. A. C. Sander, L. M. Oskinova +7

We present a comprehensive analysis of Cyg X-1, utilizing archival high-resolution UV and optical spectra in conjunction with sophisticated atmospheric models. Notably, this is the…

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

Coupling hydrodynamics with comoving frame radiative transfer. III. The wind regime of early-type B hypergiants

M. Bernini-Peron, A. A. C. Sander, F. Najarro +8

Context. B hypergiants (BHGs) are important for understanding high-mass stellar evolution. While they are in a similar parameter space of B supergiants (BSGs), some BHGs are known…

physics.pop-ph2025

Resolving the baryon assymmetry with RATS

J. Josiek, M. Bernini-Peron, G. González-Torà +2

Current leading theories of physics such as the Big Bang, the standard model of particle physics, and general relativity suggest that the universe should contain an equal amount of…

astro-ph.SR2025

A new mass estimate method with hydrodynamical atmospheres for very massive WNh stars

Gautham N. Sabhahit, Jorick S. Vink, Andreas A. C. Sander +4

Very massive stars with masses over 100 Msun are key objects in the Universe for our understanding of chemical and energetic feedback in the Universe, but their evolution and fate…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Extremely iron-poor O-type stars in the Magellanic Bridge

E. C. Schösser, V. Ramachandran, A. A. C. Sander +7

To study stars analogous to those in the early Universe with redshift z > 3, we need to probe environments with low metallicities. Until recently, massive O-type stars with metalli…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 14 cited

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): The multiplicity properties and evolution of BAF-type supergiants

L. R. Patrick, D. J. Lennon, F. Najarro +36

Given the uncertain evolutionary status of blue supergiant stars, their multiplicity properties hold vital clues to better understand their origin and evolution. As part of The Bin…

astro-ph.SR2025★ 9 cited

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM): Multiplicity of early B-type supergiants in the Small Magellanic Cloud

N. Britavskiy, L. Mahy, D. J. Lennon +32

The blue supergiant (BSG) domain contains a large variety of stars whose past and future evolutionary paths are still highly uncertain. Since binary interaction plays a crucial rol…